Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Known for its many stirring melodies, including Cio-Cio-San's aria "Un bel ...

Just when it seemed the San Francisco Opera season was winding down, the company has introduced a “Madama Butterfly” that absolutely knocks it out of the park. The reason is Lianna Haroutounian, whose ...

Author David Rain is an opera fan, and after watching Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, was left with one question: Whatever happened to the son... 'Heat' Imagines Life After 'Madame Butterfly' The ...

Were it not for a simple twist of fate, Eric Taylor might be reconstructing jaws instead of belting arias. The 30-year-old Utah native had long had his sights set on being an oral maxillofacial ...

Even those individuals not particularly conversant with the beauty of grand opera can recognize and perhaps replicate the melodies of certain key arias, whether or not they can identify the title and ...

Few characters in opera are as iconic as the teenage geisha at the weeping heart of Giacomo Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly." The story of Cio-Cio-San (pronounced Cho-Cho-San), a naïve but determined ...

One of the fascinating aspects of Inland Northwest Opera’s “Madame Butterfly,” at Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox on Friday and Sunday, is that the set is made of paper. Stage director Fenlon Lamb, ...

Although written back in 1903, Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” remains as relevant as it is poignant. The opera follows the story of a Japanese geisha who marries an American naval officer and ...

Beloved and contentious: Madama Butterfly is both one of Puccini’s most revered works, but continues to raise questions about depictions of race, culture and gender in opera. Madame Butterfly is based ...