What do Norfolk and Nagasaki have in common? Both are historic ports, of course, that likely have had their share of macho mariners loving and leaving hapless residents behind. Let all self-styled ...

Karah Son and Eric Taylor in "Madama Butterfly" at Pittsburgh Opera. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up ...

Calgary Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the season opener for the company. This is the sixth time the company has presented the opera, the first being the first opera I ...

BOSTON - In their season opener, Boston Lyric Opera is looking at "Madama Butterfly" with modern eyes. The production moves the time and setting of the tragic love story from the original 1904 ...

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the play by David Belasco. Premiere: Feb. 17, 1904, Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Presented in the Brescia version, premiered May 28, 1904.

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 Nov. 15 ...

unparalleled beauty that will stay with you long after you’ve left the theater. This ever-popular opera will feature an all-female, Asian creative team, bringing a new lens to this tragic tale.

The electricity of opening night flowed through the Crouse-Hinds Theater April 13, when Syracuse Opera produced "Madama Butterfly," the final "Doomed Diva" of it's three-show season. Giacomo Puccini's ...

Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” according to the tenor who sings its lead in the Wichita Grand Opera production, is perhaps the most cinematic in all of the genre. “It tells a story through time,” Kirk ...

Ah, “Madama Butterfly,” Puccini’s classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other –– in Italian. It is a ...

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