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

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 ...

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

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

In updating "Madame Butterfly" to a 1930s Hollywood soundstage on which Puccini's opera is being filmed, Los Angeles Opera ...

Leading sopranos Hui He and Ana María Martínez share the heartbreaking title role of the doomed geisha, with tenors Piero Pretti and Andrea Carè as the American naval officer who abandons her.

Seriously, google ‘Lakmé controversy’ and ‘Madama Butterfly Controversy’ and count the articles. For the 2024 return of The ...

Love, betrayal, self-deception. The themes of M. Butterfly intertwine with those of Puccini’s achingly tragic opera; but here they’re ingeniously upended as the action is relocated to Paris ...

Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage ... Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and his librettists imbued the opera with ...

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 ...