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 ...

Soprano Karen Chia-ling Ho delivers a powerhouse performance in SFO's visually breathtaking 'Madama Butterfly' this season.

Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas of all time. Since it was first unveiled, by Puccini, at La Scala in Milan in 1904, it has been performed thousands of times the world over to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Song Liling (Edric Young, left) and Rene Gallimard (Dean Linnard) share a moment in San Francisco Playhouse's "M. Butterfly." ...

Opera Philadelphia's 2023-2024 Season closes with a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly that illuminates and ultimately transcends harmful stereotypes, empowering the protagonist Cio Cio San ...

The wildly popular Italian opera takes place in Japan when a 15-year-old Japanese girl, Cio-Cio-San (aka Madame Butterfly), falls in love with an American naval officer stationed in Nagasaki named B.F ...

When I was a young man discovering the world of opera many years ago, when you only heard music in person or on the radio or on records, I would first experience a work entirely by sound. I might have ...

Maria Luigia Borsi is the complete package – natural acting ability and a voice of luminous beauty "Madame Butterfly" repeats at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Music Hall. A stellar cast, gorgeous set and ...

A stunning performance from Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role made an outstanding impression at the opening night of Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House. I have lost count of ...

As we all know, one man’s contemplation of nature’s shapes and synergies is another man’s pile of rocks in the middle of a gallery floor. Art, especially the modern conceptual kind, is subjective. And ...

The Butterfly Process, an emerging educational initiative, aims to address stereotypes in Puccini’s opera and beyond — with modern, multiracial audiences in mind The first time Melanie Bacaling saw ...