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

San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam has announced the 11 ...

Called Nessun Dorma, after one of Puccini’s most famous arias, the program will be performed on Saturday ... These artists ...

Wang Xin has won the overall Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition with an image of red sprite ...

The melodic lines of Madama Butterfly are among opera’s most familiar ... given his flood of instruments and thematic echoes. A passage in one aria forecasts the piercing scream in another ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Karina Canellakis, Royal Festival Hall ★★★☆☆ It’s now almost de ...

In a rare case of an author adapting her own work for the stage, the author is the librettist of a bilingual opera now taking ...

His “Madama Butterfly” subjugates its tragic ... Both feature among the most stirring and miraculous music in the genre, and some of its most beloved arias. “The Mikado,” for its part, idealizes Japan ...

The story has parallels with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – Huang Ruo’s score is ... extremely beautiful and he brought real pathos to Song’s questioning aria “Awoke as a butterfly” after being ordered ...

With reckless ferocity, she lit into one of opera’s most perilous arias. If she had made a ... The Met offered her the role of Madame Butterfly, but she did not dare try it at her weight.

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