Opera Orlando is focused on honoring Japanese culture in its production of “Madame Butterfly,” plus OperaX and Laffont competition news.

“Madame Butterfly” is a classic East-meets-West romance. An American naval officer weds a Japanese geisha, only to leave her for three years. Although it began as a short story and quickly became a ...

Opera Orlando posted a preview featuring highlights from Puccini's Madame Butterfly, including the Humming Chorus and Un Bel ...

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 lines were ridiculous, and I was ready to laugh at them. But I didn't, or didn't much, and no one else did either. Song, all fluttering modesty, breathes to Gallimard of her "small, frightened ...

@SL_body_copy_ragged:On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." The performance will be shown at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema ...

Cio-Cio-San, a.k.a. Madame Butterfly, first won hearts in an 1898 short story by an American lawyer, then in a Broadway play two years later before becoming immortal thanks to Puccini’s 1904 Italian ...

Opera Orlando will present three lead-up events before its season opener MADAME BUTTERFLY at Steinmetz Hall, beginning with a masterclass ...

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 ...

There are few opportunities that allow for true grandeur these days. Going to the grand opera is one of those rare experiences. San Diego is fortunate to have a fine opera company in its downtown area ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 10—More than two years after the curtain came down on "The Marriage of Figaro, " opera has finally returned in full throat to ...

Puccini’s Orientalist story of the sexual exploitation of an Asian woman may seem repulsive in the #metoo era – but we shouldn’t flinch from a masterpiece’s savagery, says the director of Glyndebourne ...