The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown begins its 51st season this evening and it’s promising a spectacular lineup of ...

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." ...

She dies in the end. Of course, you already knew that. Or … does she, after all? New questions are posed in Detroit Opera’s arresting production of “Madame Butterfly,” which still has two performances ...

Opera Philadelphia's 2023-2024 Season closes with a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly that illuminates and ultimately transcends harmful stereotypes, empowering the protagonist Cio Cio San ...

Conductor John Fiore and stage director Melanie Bacaling team up to restore Butterfly's agency — and her complexity — in Santa Fe Opera's new revival of Puccini's beloved classic.

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 ...

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 ...

Knoxville Opera announced its 2026–2027 'Dreamers & Deceivers' season, featuring Strauss's DIE FLEDERMAUS and Puccini's ...

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 ...