The principal Japanese characters of Butterfly ... which continually produced scenes onstage of postcard beauty. "Madama Butterfly" is sung in Italian with English supertitles projected above ...

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

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 ...

Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the ...

Madama Butterfly, first performed in 1904 ... She has a tangible change of character from Act I to Act II. Upon hearing ...

Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori, nicknamed "Madame Butterfly" for her signature winged motifs, has died. She was 96. She died of old age in her Tokyo home on 11 August and was given a private ...

Setting "Madama Butterfly" in this period "reframes the Japanese characters' motivations in this story,” Barbara Lynne Jamison, Kentucky Opera’s general director and CEO, said in the release.