Madama Butterfly” is one of the most frequently performed of all operas with gorgeous music that enraptures listeners. It is ...

Matthew Ozawa uses lavish spectacle and heartfelt performances while exploring Puccini's orientalism through VR in this Lyric ...

This is a difficult opera to stage now, and director Matthew Ozawa has found an effective solution. And audiences still hear ...

Check out footage from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, the story of a faithful but doomed geisha in love with B.F. Pinkerton, ...

Madama Butterfly runs through March 28. Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the title role on March 14, 18, 21, and 27. Matthew ...

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 ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is reimagining Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" this spring as a reality video game, where the player assumes the role of Pinkerton, recasting the character as someone lost in ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 “Madama Butterfly,” the opera about a tragic love affair between a young Japanese woman and an American naval officer in 19th century Nagasaki is, of course, thematically ...

BroadwayWorld chats with Japanese-American soprano Emily Michiko Jensen about making her debut in the title role of 'Madama Butterfly' at Opera San Jose November 16th to 30th.

A student who was at a Dublin discussion with Evans told me her essential concept, and I thought it sounded promising: at Pinkerton’s funeral many years later than Puccini’s ending, his wife Kate ...