Which opera had more acts: Madama Butterfly (original) or Rigoletto?
Rigoletto
Title: Madame Butterfly (1954 film)
Passage: Madame Butterfly (Italian: Madama Butterfly ) is a 1954 Italian-Japanese musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi and Michiko Tanaka.  It is based on the opera "Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini.
Title: The Dancing Girl (short story)
Passage: "The Dancing Girl" (舞姫 , Maihime ) was the first published short story by the Japanese writer Mori Ōgai.  The story first appeared in "Kokumin no Tomo" (People's Friend, 国民之友) in 1890, and is based on Mori's own experiences as a medical student in Germany.  In some ways, this tale foreshadows Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", which deals with a similar theme but with a slight role reversal: in "Madama Butterfly", a Western man abandons a Japanese woman, while in "The Dancing Girl" a Japanese man leaves a Western woman.
Title: Emilio Venturini
Passage: Emilio Venturini (1878 - 1952) was an Italian operatic lyric tenor known for his portrayal of character roles.  He made his professional opera debut in 1900 in Italy where he remained for the next several years.  In 1901 he sang the role of Brighella in Mascagni's "Le maschere" at the Teatro Regio in Turin.  He made his La Scala debut in 1903 as Froh in Wagner's "Das Rheingold" and sang in the premiere of Umberto Giordano's "Siberia".  In 1904, he originated the role of Prince Yamadori in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" at La Scala.  In 1905, Venturini joined the roster of the Opéra National de Paris.  In 1907 he moved to London to sing with Royal Opera at Covent Garden.  In 1910, Venturini became a member of the Chicago Opera Association where he performed roles until the summer of 1917.  While in Chicago he sang mostly character parts but did sing some major roles like Turiddu in "Cavalleria rusticana", Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor" and the Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly".  In 1911 he sang the roles of Cassio in Verdi's "Otello" and Spoletta in Puccini's "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera.  Venturini also returned to Italy for brief periods in 1910, 1911, and 1916 to perform roles with the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.  In 1921, Venturini joined the roster at La Scala and sang roles with that opera house until 1948.  He notably originated the roles of Il Tempiere in Boito's "Nerone" in 1924 and Pang in Puccini's "Turandot" in 1926.  and was the first to record the role of Nereo in Boito's "Mefistofele" in the 1931 La Scala recording.
Title: Arnold Rutkowski
Passage: Arnold Rutkowski is a Polish opera singer who has sung leading tenor roles both in his native country and abroad.  He is best known for his performances as Don Josè in "Carmen", Rodolfo in "La bohème", Alfredo Germont in "La traviata", the Duke of Mantua in "Rigoletto", and Lt. Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly".
Title: Rigoletto
Passage: Rigoletto (] ) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.  The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play "Le roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo.  Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
Title: Un bel dì vedremo
Passage: "Un bel dì vedremo " ("One fine day we’ll see") is a soprano aria from the opera "Madama Butterfly" (1904) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.  It is sung by Cio-Cio San/Madama Butterfly (on stage with Suzuki), when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon.
Title: Rolando Panerai
Passage: Rolando Panerai (born 17 October 1924) is an Italian baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.  He was born in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence, Italy and studied with Frazzi in Florence and Armani and Giulia Tess in Milan.  Panerai made his stage debut in 1947 in Naples at the Teatro di San Carlo as the pharaon in Rossini's "Mosè in Egitto".  Other debuts, both in 1951, were as Simon Boccanegra in "Simon Boccanegra" in Bergamo and as Sharpless in "Madama Butterfly" at La Scala in Milan.  He sang in many rarely performed Verdi operas on radio broadcast for RAI in 1951 (to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Verdi's death), such as "Giovanna d'Arco", "La battaglia di Legnano", and "Aroldo".  Later roles included most of the great Verdi baritone roles, particularly the title character in "Rigoletto", The Count of Luna in "Il trovatore", Giorgio Germont in "La traviata", Marquis of Posa in "Don Carlos", Amonasro in "Aida".
Title: Anthony Michaels-Moore
Passage: Anthony Michaels-Moore (born 8 April 1957) is an English operatic baritone and the first British winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition (Philadelphia, 1985) Anthony has since performed in many of the world's major opera houses across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.  He has distinguished himself as a specialist in Verdi and Puccini roles, most renowned for his portrayals of Falstaff, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Iago in "Otello", Germont in "La traviata", Sharpless in "Madama Butterfly", and Scarpia in "Tosca".  In addition to the standard repertoire, he has sung and recorded the baritone roles of some of the less-known 19th Century Italian operas.
Title: Madama Butterfly
Passage: Madama Butterfly (] ; "Madam Butterfly") is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Title: Loretta Di Franco
Passage: Loretta Di Franco is an American operatic soprano who is chiefly known for her more than 900 performances at the Metropolitan Opera from 1961-1995.  Originally a member of the Met's opera chorus, she eventually was promoted to singing small comprimario roles beginning with one of the pages in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and the peasant girl in "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1961.  She went on to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1965 which led to her first substantial role, Chloe in "The Queen of Spades".  She continued to appear annually at the Met for the next 30 years, performing both leading and supporting roles.  Some of the parts she performed at the Met included Annina in "La traviata", both the Aunt and Barena in Janáček's "Jenůfa", Barbarina and Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro", Berta in "The Barber of Seville", Countess Ceprano in "Rigoletto", the Dew Fairy and the Sandman in "Hansel and Gretel", Feklusa in "Káťa Kabanová", the First Lady in "The Magic Flute", the Flower Seller in Britten's "Death in Venice", Frasquita in "Carmen", Gerhilde in "Die Walküre", Giannetta in "L'elisir d'amore", Helen in "Mourning Becomes Electra", Ines in "Il trovatore", Jouvenot in "Adriana Lecouvreur", Kate Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly", Laura in "Luisa Miller", Lauretta in "Gianni Schichi", Lisa in "La sonnambula", Marianne in "Der Rosenkavalier", Marthe in "Faust", Musetta in "La bohème", Oscar in "Un ballo in maschera", Samaritana in "Francesca da Rimini", Woglinde in both "Das Rheingold" and "Götterdämmerung", Xenia in "Boris Godunov", Zerlina in "Don Giovanni", and title role in "Lucia di Lammermoor".  In 1991 she created the role of the Woman with Child in the world premiere of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles".
Rigoletto Madama Butterfly