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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After he decided to adapt David Belasco’s play “Madame Butterfly,” which he saw in London in 1900, Puccini researched Japanese music and asked the wife of a Japanese diplomat in Rome for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leopoldo Metlicovitz’s art-nouveau poster for the 1904 premiere of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (photo: Bridgeman Images) ‘I have now set sail for Japan’, Puccini wrote to Ricordi in January 1902. In ...