Madama Butterfly, the three-act classic opera by Giacomo Puccini and inspired by the play Madama Butterfly by David Belasco.

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

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

53A. “Early synthesizers” refers to MOOGS, the bulky, pioneering synthesizers used in many ’70s rock-and-roll songs. The ...

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

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

The ASU opera program had an Opera Under the Stars event at the Plaza Pavilion on Friday, Nov. 1. The show began with Dirk ...

The ending is a surprise – and a shock. The subject has clear connections to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, although the dynamic is reversed – here the betrayer is the Chinese opera singer ...

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 ...

The story has parallels with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – Huang Ruo’s score is even published by Casa Ricordi – with its overtones of imperialism, but author and composer turn that familiar opera on ...

A smash-hit Broadway play turned movie, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly metamorphoses into music theatre as the UK premiere of Huang Ruo’s operatic reworking takes wing. Love, betrayal, ...

Italy's Giacomo Puccini, famed for operas such as "Madame Butterfly," was panned by contemporary critics but harnessed then-novel technology such as records and cinema to become a global star, ...