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 ...

When I was a young man discovering the world of opera many years ago, when you only heard music in person or on the radio or on records, I would first experience a work entirely by sound. I might have ...

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The Butterfly Process, an emerging educational initiative, aims to address stereotypes in Puccini’s opera and beyond — with modern, multiracial audiences in mind The first time Melanie Bacaling saw ...

Soprano Sandra Lopez has sung the lead role of Cio Cio-San in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” dozens of times all over the world, but this weekend will be a new first with the role. For the first time in ...

The origin's of Giacomo Puccini's three-act opera, "Madama Butterfly," resembles a game of telephone. First, American author John Luther Long wrote the short story "Madame Butterfly," published in ...

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Director and writer Daisy Evens takes the helm for a new production of Madama Butterfly from Irish National Opera, which stars Celine Byrne and will have four performances in Dublin's Bord Gáis Energy ...

Glyndebourne’s first ever staging of Madama Butterfly is a resounding success, with hardly any weakness in either staging or singing. John Wilson, making his Glyndebourne debut, obtains wonderfully ...

This season, Sarasota Opera welcomes a new Madama Butterfly to the stage: Raquel González. González, who grew up in Kansas, trained at Juilliard, and is currently based in Champaign, Illinois, and ...

Opera Naples' "Madama Butterfly" will come out of her cocoon Nov. 3 with a more expressionist vibe and movement— but the same mesmerizing music. There's already plenty of pageantry potential in what ...