has returned to the Canadian Opera Company for an eight-show run in a new-to-Toronto production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” ...

The future of “Madama Butterfly” at the Canadian Opera Company is — pun not intended — up in the air. Joshua Chong is a Toronto-based arts critic and culture reporter for the Star.

Madama Butterfly is an easily approachable production that engages newcomers and seasoned operagoers alike. This production is on stage until February 16, 2025.

Puccini’s famous opera, Madama Butterfly, is reimagined by interdisciplinary performer-creator, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (they/them) into The Butterfly Project 蝶々さんの ...

Apr 26 - May 4 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Add to Calendar 26-04-2025 19:30 04-05-2025 21:30 America/Toronto Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly tells the poignant story of Cio-Cio-San ...

BLO was initially set to perform “Madama Butterfly” in the fall of 2020 ... In the fall of 2019, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto put on an updated performance of another Puccini opera, ...

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 ...

Upon arriving at the Emerson Colonial Theatre to watch “Madama Butterfly,” audiences are greeted with an unexpected sight: an older version of the titular character (Keiko Orrall) frosting a ...

For opera newbies, “Madama Butterfly” follows American naval officer Pinkerton, who marries Cio-Cio San (also known as Butterfly) soon after he arrives in Nagasaki, Japan.