Love, loss and honor are central themes in Giacomo Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly" — an opera taking to the stage in San Diego once again. “So this is one of Puccini's greatest operas,” said General ...

Calgary Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the season opener for the company. This is the sixth time the company has presented the opera, the first being the first opera I ...

Which Italian opera was based on a Broadway play that was adapted from an American short story, inspired by a true incident in Japan, as evoked in a French novel? That pan-global lineage belongs to ...

Karah Son and Eric Taylor in "Madama Butterfly" at Pittsburgh Opera. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up ...

BOSTON - In their season opener, Boston Lyric Opera is looking at "Madama Butterfly" with modern eyes. The production moves the time and setting of the tragic love story from the original 1904 ...

Lyric Opera's "Madama Butterfly" as performed on the stage of the Muriel Kauffman Theater is extraordinary. Puccini's music remains lyric and lush even after one hundred fourteen years. Madama ...

The last time American soprano Corinne Winters sang with San Diego Opera in 2017, she played the dying courtesan Violetta in Verdi’s in “La traviata.” Now she’s back as the doomed heroine Cio-Cio San ...

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Opera Memphis opens its 2018-19 season with Madama Butterfly, Puccini's heartbreaking tale of love caught between two different worlds, featuring acclaimed soprano Yunah Lee as Madama Butterfly.

MOBILE, Alabama—The two productions in Mobile Opera's 2013-2014 season are set in The Land of the Rising Sun. But the country of Japan is all they have in common. Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," ...

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