Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Song Liling (Edric Young, left) and Rene Gallimard (Dean Linnard) share a moment in San Francisco Playhouse's "M. Butterfly." ...

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 ...

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Monika Radecka just landed on the Wrocław opera scene — and it was a landing. Her debut as Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly at Opera Wrocławska wasn’t just promising — it was powerful. At only 26, she ...

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 ...

Karah Son in a scene from in L.A. Opera's production of "Madame Butterfly" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Cio-Cio-San, a.k.a. Madame Butterfly, first won hearts ...