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

With Tilman Michael, the Met’s new chorus master, this fine ensemble seems to be in very capable hands. Overenthusiasm aside, Nézet-Séguin knows his way around this score. Balance was never an issue, ...

Called Nessun Dorma, after one of Puccini’s most famous arias, the program will be performed on Saturday ... These artists ...

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

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

His plangent voice and perfect phrasing were outstanding; and his Act III aria “Eri tu,”when he shifts his anger from what he mistakenly thinks is his wife’s betrayal to that of Gustavus, was one of ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Karina Canellakis, Royal Festival Hall ★★★☆☆ It’s now almost de ...

The subject has clear connections to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, although the dynamic ... the Chinese opera singer performs the famous aria Un Bel Dì). Yet much of it, though apt, is ...

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 ... extremely beautiful and he brought real pathos to Song’s questioning aria “Awoke as a butterfly” after being ordered ...

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, ...