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

Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" opens with Lieutenant Pinkerton of the American Navy is surveying the home he has just purchased for himself and his 15?year?old bride. Perched high atop a stony mountain ...

Florentine Opera's new production of "Madama Butterfly" makes it possible to ... power imbalance between callous American naval officer Pinkerton (tenor Adam Diegel) and his poor but beautiful ...

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that ...

Unfortunately, she falls in love with Pinkerton and a heartbreaking drama ensues ... Elena Dee bringing emotional intensity to the pivotal role of Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly). It’s a gruelling ...

known as Madama Butterfly, who is faced with the aftermath of trusting and marrying an American naval officer, the reckless pleasure-seeking B.F. Pinkerton. As Pinkerton’s intentions are ...

Madama Butterfly, first performed in 1904 ... be seen as racist or as a criticism of imperialism depending on your viewpoint.

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that ...