“Madame Butterfly” is a classic East-meets-West romance. An American naval officer weds a Japanese geisha, only to leave her for three years. Although it began as a short story and quickly became a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Korean soprano Hye-Youn Lee as Madam Butterfly - Alastair Muir For its first new production of the season, Grange Park Opera ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Dozens of productions of Madama Butterfly are staged around the world each year. Massively popular ...

ONE of opera’s most popular works, Madama Butterfly, has returned to intoxicate audiences at Opera Australia’s autumn season in Melbourne. Under revival director Hugh Halliday, Moffatt Oxenbould’s ...

Upon arriving at the Emerson Colonial Theatre to watch “Madama Butterfly,” audiences are greeted with an unexpected sight: an older version of the titular character (Keiko Orrall) frosting a birthday ...

Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and most comprehensive portraits of a woman in the history of opera, but also one of the most shocking: a story of humiliation and deceit which ultimately leads ...

Karah Son as Cio-Cio-San in Opera Australia's 2019 production of Madama Butterfly at the Sydney Opera House. Source: Photo by Prudence Upton courtesy of Opera Australia Opera Australia has stunned ...

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 ...

Puccini’s Orientalist story of the sexual exploitation of an Asian woman may seem repulsive in the #metoo era – but we shouldn’t flinch from a masterpiece’s savagery, says the director of Glyndebourne ...

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 ...