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 ...

Winner of the Oscar Della Lirica in 2014, despite his young age, Vincenzo Costanzo had already had the opportunity to ...

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 ...

He goes to the opera and sees an enchanting soprano in the role of Madama Butterfly. He develops the fantasy that he is Pinkerton and Song Liling is Butterfly, the “Oriental” woman in ...

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 ...