Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular ...

The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo ...

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Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the ...

Florentine Opera's new production of "Madama Butterfly" makes it possible to enjoy the beauty of Puccini's music without cringing at the staging. By shifting the story, set in Nagasaki ...

Giacomo Puccini certainly knew how to stir a controversy, if only a century after his death. Madama Butterfly, first ...

Read more The fifth of seven children, he was christened Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo ... third of this remarkable trilogy written by the same three men, Madama Butterfly. Puccini once ...

Andrew’s United Church will present a concert this weekend celebrating the 100-year legacy of acclaimed opera composer ...

Lucca Comics & Games (taking place from 30 October to 3 November in the historical city in Italy), has announced its festival ...

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 ...