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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Detroit Opera re-imagines “Madame Butterfly” with an Asian American creative team. We’re taking viewers behind the scenes of Detroit Opera’s re-envisioned production of “Madame Butterfly.” Led by an ...

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 ...

Opera Philadelphia closes its current season with a new production of Puccini’s beloved “Madame Butterfly,” an opera that illuminates and ultimately transcends harmful stereotypes, empowering the ...

The passionate melodies Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" are poised to captivate Utah audiences once again, but this time with a bold new vision that honors its timeless beauty while inviting a ...

DETROIT – Madame Butterfly is fluttering to Detroit Opera, but maybe not in the way you might remember it. Giacomo Puccini’s renowned opera from 1904 is getting reimagined over a century later, while ...

Utah Opera plans a 2025 staging of Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” — historically a controversial work because of its stereotyped depictions of Japanese women — with a twist: It has a production ...

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 ...

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When I was a young man discovering the world of opera many years ago, when you only heard music in person or on the radio or on records, I would first experience a work entirely by sound. I might have ...