Kaori Sato does a star turn in "Madama Butterfly," Fargo-Moorhead Opera's first production of the season, with a performance built on a strong, commanding voice and small, graceful gestures. And David ...

A critic weighs San Francisco Playhouse's "M. Butterfly" against Pocket Opera's "Madame Butterfly," probing racism, desire ...

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 ...

What do Norfolk and Nagasaki have in common? Both are historic ports, of course, that likely have had their share of macho mariners loving and leaving hapless residents behind. Let all self-styled ...

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 ...

Jonathan Tetelman (left) stars as B.F. Pinkerton in the Los Angeles Opera production of “Madame Butterfly,” delivering a show-stealing performance full of “vocal power” and charm. (Cory Weaver / L.A.

Karah Son and Eric Taylor in "Madama Butterfly" at Pittsburgh Opera. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up ...

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The moral of the story was “woke” for its time. Puccini and librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa are calling out the ills of practices toward Asian and other racialized women that were ...