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Rene Gallimard (died 1986) was a French civil servant who, in 1986, was charged with espionage after a 26-year-long affair with Chinese Beijing Opera singer Song Liling (a cross-dressing man, unbeknownst to Gallimard) led to Gallimard passing on classified information to Song, who then sent it...
The first act introduces the main character, René Gallimard, a civil servant attached to the French embassy in China. In a prison, Gallimard is serving a sentence for treason. Through a series of flashbacks and imagined conversations, Gallimard tells an audience his story about a woman that he loved and lost.
Gallimard compensates for his low self-esteem by developing an extended fantasy based on his favorite opera, Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. In the opera, a beautiful Japanese geisha commits suicide after her American lover abandons and rejects her.
Overview... an awkward, opera-loving French diplomat. He has recently come to China, and he is just as bewildered by the culture as he is enamored with it. Or, to be more exact, enamored with one specific part of it: Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese actress who gives Gallimard a much-needed boost to his confidence.
Rene Gallimard is a former French diplomat who falls in love with Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer who is actually a man. He is a victim of his own orientalist and imperialist prejudices, and his affair ends in betrayal and humiliation.
Rene Gallimard. Gallimard is a former French diplomat who has been imprisoned for treason. His crime was passing classified documents to the Chinese, through his lover, Song. Gallimard is an unimpressive man, who by his own admission is not “witty or clever.” At high school, he was voted “least likely to be invited to a party.”
Butterfly tells the love story between René Gallimard, a sexually insecure minor French diplomat, and Song Liling, a diva from the Chinese opera, a man who pretends to be a woman. Elements of Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly echo throughout the play.
