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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Opera San José is presenting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly from November 16–30, 2025, at the California Theatre. Check out photos of the production. Part of the company’s 42nd season, the production will ...

Florentine Opera's new production of "Madama Butterfly" makes it possible to enjoy the beauty of Puccini's music without cringing at the staging. By shifting the story, set in Nagasaki, Japan, from ...

Pacific Opera Project’s (POP) acclaimed bilingual production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” has returned, showing at the Aratani Theatre, located at the Japanese American Cultural and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For its fourth and final production of the season, Opera in the Heights (OH), the ...

The last time American soprano Corinne Winters sang with San Diego Opera in 2017, she played the dying courtesan Violetta in Verdi’s in “La traviata.” Now she’s back as the doomed heroine Cio-Cio San ...

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 ...

The movies, Anthony Minghella and a girl named Madama Butterfly came to the Met for opening night of the 2006-07 season. In no way did Minghella's production disappoint: Although it does not ...

Lavish costumes and sets? Check and check. Puccini’s dramatic music sung in Italian? No. But allow us to explain ... In April 2019, L.A.-based Pacific Opera Project, in collaboration with Houston’s ...