PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' takes flight at the Academy of Music. "In the original production it's a Japanese girl," says Karen Chia-ling Ho, who plays Cio Cio San, the ...

Madame Butterfly, presented here by the Serbian National Theatre, is considered a masterpiece and is among the world’s most-performed operas. Credit: WIkimedia Commons / Serbian National Theatre.jpg ...

For the first time in 25 years, Giacomo Puccini’s grand opera “Madama Butterfly” will be staged in Baton Rouge. Opéra Louisiane will stage the performance Sunday, March 8, in the Baton Rouge River ...

Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and most comprehensive portraits of a woman in the history of opera, but also one of the most shocking: a story of humiliation and deceit which ultimately leads ...

Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the "best young female singer" of 2016. "So ...

Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan, Orchestre de Paris, James Conlon, conductor (Sony, 2 discs). This soundtrack to Frederic Mitterrand’s atmospheric film of Puccini’s opera has ...

HOUSTON - A major new role for a soprano returning to one of her favorite houses. A local debut by one of the world's leading tenors. A spare and elegant production by a famous British director. The ...

A century ago today, an abandoned young woman took the stage at La Scala in Milan, Italy, praying for her lover's return. Thus, the world was introduced to Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini's most ...

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) ...

The premiere of Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" is one of the greatest opera scandals in Italy's history. However, the work has gone on to become one of the most cherished works in the opera ...

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) ...