Before streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, DVDs were king for generations of children. At one time, the only way to see a film after it had left the cinema and before it appeared on ...

I want to get to your latest, extraordinary move, but let’s start with a quick blast from your swimming career that led you to be known nationwide as Madame Butterfly. SO: I was originally a ...

Bouriscot fell in love with Peking opera star Shi Pei Pu (Song Liling), unaware during their 20-year affair that “she” was really a man who was working as a spy for the Chinese government. The story ...

And the exhibit includes excerpts of silent films that used Puccini's music, notably "Madame Butterfly" from 1915. "Puccini - Opera Meets New Media," which had its debut in Berlin earlier this year, ...

The Oscar winner, 49, stars as the late opera singer in director Pablo Larraín's latest biopic. Larraín notably focused his two previous films on 20th-century titans, Natalie Portman as former ...

Her stance on slave trading is explored in her biography, Madame Tinubu: Merchant and Kingmaker, written by Nigerian historian Oladipo Yemitan. One notable incident in her life involved the ...

Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar contender for a performance that involved seven months of opera training. Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar nominee for her role as a ...

Members of the public picked out by King Charles and Queen Camilla from the thousands gathered outside the Sydney Opera House have excitedly recalled their royal encounters. Ella Su, 39 ...

Researchers affiliated with the neuroscience platform FinalSpark have devised a 3D simulation depicting a butterfly that's directed by human brain cells. "It represents a significant step towards the ...

The melodic lines of Madama Butterfly are among opera’s most familiar and overdone. The racism and sexism still make us squirm over what were common European attitudes 120 years ago when Giacomo ...

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