Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the "best young female singer" of 2016. "So ...

The title role of Madame Butterfly in Opera Philadelphia's production is represented by a puppet, voiced and manipulated by Karen Chia-ling Ho. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

For all of the device’s delicious successes, framing complicated shots of singers through the geometric slats of Ezio Frigerio’s behemoth set in ways that conversely evoke the opulence of a work by ...

Calgary Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the season opener for the company. This is the sixth time the company has presented the opera, the first being the first opera I ...

Were it not for a simple twist of fate, Eric Taylor might be reconstructing jaws instead of belting arias. The 30-year-old Utah native had long had his sights set on being an oral maxillofacial ...

The wildly popular Italian opera takes place in Japan when a 15-year-old Japanese girl, Cio-Cio-San (aka Madame Butterfly), falls in love with an American naval officer stationed in Nagasaki named B.F ...

Karah Son and Eric Taylor in "Madama Butterfly" at Pittsburgh Opera. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up ...

BOSTON - In their season opener, Boston Lyric Opera is looking at "Madama Butterfly" with modern eyes. The production moves the time and setting of the tragic love story from the original 1904 ...

It is easy to become complacent about popular classics. But there is often a good reason why they have stood the test of time and Tim Albery‘s revival of Madama Butterfly for Opera North is a shining ...

NEW YORK – Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the “best young female singer” of ...

Lights, camera, action: An American officer in turn-of-the-century Japan wants a bride, and a greedy marriage broker obliges, assuring him that the union can be easily dissolved. The innocent ...