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LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, which includes Madame Butterfly, running September 21st through October 13th. Watch the video preview of the production below! Lights, camera, action: ...

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." ...

Karah Son in a scene from in L.A. Opera's production of "Madame Butterfly" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Cio-Cio-San, a.k.a. Madame Butterfly, first won hearts ...

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 ...

Monika Radecka just landed on the Wrocław opera scene — and it was a landing. Her debut as Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly at Opera Wrocławska wasn’t just promising — it was powerful. At only 26, she ...

What do Norfolk and Nagasaki have in common? Both are historic ports, of course, that likely have had their share of macho mariners loving and leaving hapless residents behind. Let all self-styled ...

Love, loss and honor are central themes in Giacomo Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly" — an opera taking to the stage in San Diego once again. “So this is one of Puccini's greatest operas,” said General ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Madama Butterfly's silk kimono awaits in the LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts' costume shop, but Teresa Perrotta has yet to try it on, much less think about it. She's been too busy rehearsing ...

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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 ...