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Not all the familiar classics in heavy rotation on the world's major opera house stages are marked by elaborately sentimental pathos, but plenty of them are. And even among these many well-loved ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' takes flight at the Academy of Music. "In the original production it's a Japanese girl," says Karen Chia-ling Ho, who plays Cio Cio San, the ...

Opera Philadelphia closes its current season with a new production of Puccini’s beloved “Madame Butterfly,” an opera that illuminates and ultimately transcends harmful stereotypes, empowering the ...

Is there any more tuneful “star turn” in opera than Cio-Cio-San’s entrance in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly? Besotted with American naval officer Pinkerton, on shore leave in Nagasaki, the young ...

Florentine Opera's new production of "Madama Butterfly" makes it possible to enjoy the beauty of Puccini's music without cringing at the staging. By shifting the story, set in Nagasaki, Japan, from ...

"Madama Butterfly" premiered in 1904 and is one of the world's most popular and widely performed operas. The Boston Lyric Opera has reimagined the production for today’s audience, stage director Phil ...

Calgary Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the season opener for the company. This is the sixth time the ...

Kangmin Justin Kim as Song Liling in "M. Butterfly." (Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera) When you see the title “M. Butterfly,” you might think it means Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly.” ...

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When Japanese audiences encountered Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”—a sumptuous Italianate treatment of a geisha’s doomed love for an American naval officer—they found it implausible, insulting, and ...

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