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 ...

In Irish National Opera’s Puccini staging, Celine Byrne’s character is assured and forward-thinking rather than naive and vulnerable ...

So why do audiences keep returning to Madama Butterfly? The answer lies in the music and the singing. The pacing risks becoming dramatically tedious, but Puccini’s score remains sumptuous and ...

Opera Philadelphia closes its current season with a new production of Puccini’s beloved “Madame Butterfly,” an opera that illuminates and ultimately transcends harmful stereotypes, empowering the ...

Detroit Opera re-imagines “Madame Butterfly” with an Asian American creative team. We’re taking viewers behind the scenes of Detroit Opera’s re-envisioned production of “Madame Butterfly.” Led by an ...

This October, an exciting new collaboration sheds a new light on Puccini’s classic opera “Madame Butterfly.” The Detroit Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Opera and Utah Opera companies have come ...

Kaori Sato has sung the title role in "Madame Butterfly" in more than 10 different productions. She isn't sick of it, but notes dryly that it's the part she's most often offered. "This year, I'm ...

DETROIT – Madame Butterfly is fluttering to Detroit Opera, but maybe not in the way you might remember it. Giacomo Puccini’s renowned opera from 1904 is getting reimagined over a century later, while ...

Utah Opera plans a 2025 staging of Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” — historically a controversial work because of its stereotyped depictions of Japanese women — with a twist: It has a production ...

Saturday’s opening of the Sarasota Opera winter season was bristling with pre-show anticipation for “Madame Butterfly,” arguably Giacomo Puccini’s best. By the final curtain call, the audience was ...

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 ...