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." ...

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 ...

Grange Park Opera has opened its new season with a crowd-pleaser. Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly remains problematic, with its story of a Japanese teenage geisha, impregnated and cruelly abandoned ...

This revival of Leiser and Caurier’s production of Puccini’s tragedy is a superb achievement, with Ermonela Jaho bringing passionate conviction to the title role Opera audiences, it would seem, are ...

A student who was at a Dublin discussion with Evans told me her essential concept, and I thought it sounded promising: at Pinkerton’s funeral many years later than Puccini’s ending, his wife Kate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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Joshua Dennis, left, rehearses the part of Pinkerton, and Teresa Perrotta sings her part in the lead role of Cio-Cio-San for Opera Louisiane's April 11 production of 'Madama Butterfly.' Madama ...