Chan’s seamless vision for “Madama Butterfly” thrives from its commitment to Asian-American input, creativity, and direction. Its disappointments are not rooted in concept, but in some ...

New to the “Madama Butterfly” production are tenor Taka Komagata as Goro, bass Paul Chwe Michul An as Bonze, bass Hisato Masuyama as the Official Registrar and mezzo-soprano Monica Isomura as ...

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 ...

Vancouver Opera ends its 65th season with Puccini’s perennial favourite Madama Butterfly ... While the music drives Zhou’s concept, it’s conductor Jacques Lacombe and the Vancouver Opera ...

The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo Puccini. The story, which will be staged at the Brown Theater on ...

Puccini’s 1904 opera Madama Butterfly – the sixth-most-performed in the world – is often criticized for its Western stereotypes of Eastern cultures. Even the most sensitive modern ...

Next will be the greatly anticipated return of Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini’s timeless masterpiece of love, longing and loss. With its exquisite arias and tender duets, Madama Butterfly ...

Scenes from the previous performances of the Royal Opera's production of Madama Butterfly. They provide glances at the stage and costume design for the upcoming joint production in Shanghai.

Vancouver Opera ends its 65th season with Puccini’s perennial favourite Madama Butterfly, in an extended run of five partially double-cast performances. The show opened Saturday evening in the ...