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

Florentine Opera's new production of "Madama Butterfly" makes it possible to enjoy the beauty of Puccini's music without ... particularly in the famous aria "Un bel dì, vedremo.” ...

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

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 ...

Giacomo Puccini certainly knew how to stir a controversy, if only a century after his death. Madama Butterfly, first ...

Nowhere was an audience more vocal in its disapproval than when Madame Butterfly fluttered into being at La Scala in 1904. The audience was already resistant to the opera as Puccini had been so ...

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 ...