Soprano Karen Chia-ling Ho delivers a powerhouse performance in SFO's visually breathtaking 'Madama Butterfly' this season.

The Santa Fe Opera will open its 2026 season with a revival of Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY, returning a 2010 production originally conceived by the late Lee Blakeley to the Crosby Theatre stage. Check ...

Opera San José will continue its 42nd season, devoted to exploring the question “what is love?,” with Puccini's tragic masterpiece Madama Butterfly. Set in early 20th-century Japan, this opera classic ...

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 Gran Teatre del Liceu dresses up for a grand event this Christmas to welcome one of the most touching operas in history: Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. The production will be on stage from ...

The stereotypes inherent in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”—a story built around the white imperialist male fantasy of the submissive Asian woman—have become increasingly problematic in recent years, ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Opera opens its 2024-25 season Sept. 21 with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” reimagined in a film studio and said Saturday it will present the company premiere of ...

Phil Chan believes “Madama Butterfly” should be celebrated as a masterpiece. Chan also believes the 120-year-old Puccini opera should be reclaimed and reinvented by Asian and Asian-American artists.

International operatic soprano Asmik Grigorian makes her Metropolitan Opera debut this spring, starring as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Her performance on Saturday, May 11 at 12:55 PM ET ...

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 ...

Upon arriving at the Emerson Colonial Theatre to watch “Madama Butterfly,” audiences are greeted with an unexpected sight: an older version of the titular character (Keiko Orrall) frosting a birthday ...