Maryland Opera’s eighth season will present Madama Butterfly, Puccini’s masterpiece of devotion and betrayal. Puccini’s opera will be presented complete, fully staged and costumed at Church of the ...

What do Norfolk and Nagasaki have in common? Both are historic ports, of course, that likely have had their share of macho mariners loving and leaving hapless residents behind. Let all self-styled ...

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 ...

The 2025/26 Season will mark Arizona Opera’s return to a traditional “fall-to-spring” programming schedule and will open with the eagerly anticipated company premiere of Héctor Armienta’s Zorro.

The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo Puccini. The story, which will be staged at the Brown Theater on Nov. 15 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The title role of Madame Butterfly in Opera Philadelphia's production is represented by a puppet, voiced and manipulated by Karen Chia-ling Ho. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

Few characters in opera are as iconic as the teenage geisha at the weeping heart of Giacomo Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly." The story of Cio-Cio-San (pronounced Cho-Cho-San), a naïve but determined ...

For the first time in 25 years, Giacomo Puccini’s grand opera “Madama Butterfly” will be staged in Baton Rouge. Opéra Louisiane will stage the performance Sunday, March 8, in the Baton Rouge River ...

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