A review of L.A. Opera's "Madame Butterfly" and a rundown of what to do in arts and culture this week.

Let's talk about "Madame Butterfly," an opera set in Japan that goes back 120 years or so, but this one playing here in Detroit comes from a Japanese and Japanese-American creative team. What do ...

In discussing the upcoming production of "Madame Butterfly," Utah Opera Artistic Director Christopher McBeth emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the opera's complex cultural context.

At the Metropolitan Opera in New York, for example, “Madama Butterfly” was performed almost every season between 1907 and 1941. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the work stayed off the Met ...

Five performances of “Madame Butterfly” are scheduled for May 2025 at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, to close out Utah Opera’s 2024-2025 season, which the company announced Tuesday ...

She says she's hoping to initiate a dialogue of "where Asian communities are with art and representation" with this production. Opera Philadelphia presents 'Madame Butterfly' from April 26 through ...

When Japanese audiences encountered Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”—a sumptuous Italianate treatment of a geisha’s doomed love for an American naval officer—they found it implausible ...

However, for Northeast San Fernando Valley residents, there were no such pretensions as they watched the opening night performance of “Madame Butterfly” from the comfort of their lawn chairs ...

Jonathan Tetelman (left) stars as B.F. Pinkerton in the Los Angeles Opera production of “Madame Butterfly,” delivering a show-stealing performance full of “vocal power” and charm. (Cory Weaver / L.A.

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 ...

Madama Butterfly, first performed in 1904, ... Puccini once said his art was making people cry to music and Madama Butterfly achieves this best. For just under 3 hours, ...