Opera Orlando opens its season with the classic “Madame Butterfly,” given a Japanese aesthetic at the Dr. Phillips Center.

“Madame Butterfly” is a classic East-meets-West romance. An American naval officer weds a Japanese geisha, only to leave her for three years. Although it began as a short story and quickly became a ...

In the opera that inspired the musical “Miss Saigon,” a young Japanese woman named Cio-Cio San believes that an American naval officer she loves will return to her. But after a three-year separation, ...

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." ...

3 Full Cast Set For MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American Tour The Dallas Opera is thrilled to present the block-buster of the season, Giacomo Puccini'sheart-wrenching MADAME BUTTERFLY. With its poignant ...

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The concert version of the opera Madama Butterfly, composed by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, will premiere at the Saigon Opera House on September ...

The lines were ridiculous, and I was ready to laugh at them. But I didn't, or didn't much, and no one else did either. Song, all fluttering modesty, breathes to Gallimard of her "small, frightened ...