Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924). Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, Puccini’s librettists for Madama Butterfly, ...

Ah, “Madama Butterfly,” Puccini’s classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other –– in Italian. It is a ...

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 ...

Madame Butterfly, presented here by the Serbian National Theatre, is considered a masterpiece and is among the world’s most-performed operas. Credit: WIkimedia Commons / Serbian National Theatre.jpg ...

For the first time in 25 years, Giacomo Puccini’s grand opera “Madama Butterfly” will be staged in Baton Rouge. Opéra Louisiane will stage the performance Sunday, March 8, in the Baton Rouge River ...

I'm sorry Roger Parker cannot enjoy the music of Madama Butterfly (One fine obscenity, Music, G2, February 13), but the performance I was fortunate to see in dress rehearsal at Covent Garden on Monday ...

A century ago today, an abandoned young woman took the stage at La Scala in Milan, Italy, praying for her lover's return. Thus, the world was introduced to Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini's most ...

Puccini’s Orientalist story of the sexual exploitation of an Asian woman may seem repulsive in the #metoo era – but we shouldn’t flinch from a masterpiece’s savagery, says the director of Glyndebourne ...

It's all very well for dyspeptic critics to bemoan one more predictable go- round for Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." But it only takes a performance as potent and beautiful as Sunday afternoon's ...

The Royal Opera House has defended Puccini's Butterfly, saying: ‘It is a product of the time in which it was written’ One of the world's most popular operas opens in Covent Garden today amid fresh ...