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 ...

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 Dallas Opera returns to presenting fully staged works after an almost two-year hiatus with its production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly, reminding audiences that grand opera endures. The ...

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Lyric Opera's "Madama Butterfly" as performed on the stage of the Muriel Kauffman Theater is extraordinary. Puccini's music remains lyric and lush even after one hundred fourteen years. Madama ...

Kaori Sato has sung the title role in "Madame Butterfly" in more than 10 different productions. She isn't sick of it, but notes dryly that it's the part she's most often offered. "This year, I'm ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Butterfly Process, an emerging educational initiative, aims to address stereotypes in Puccini’s opera and beyond — with modern, multiracial audiences in mind The first time Melanie Bacaling saw ...

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 ...