Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the role of Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for the remainder of the run, replacing Sonya Yoncheva.

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Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924). Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, Puccini’s librettists for Madama Butterfly, ...

Phil Chan believes “Madama Butterfly” should be celebrated as a masterpiece. Chan also believes the 120-year-old Puccini opera should be reclaimed and reinvented by Asian and Asian-American artists.

Kristine Opolais brings her heartbreaking interpretation of the title role to the series for the first time. Roberto Alagna sings Lieutenant Pinkerton, the callous officer who crushes Butterfly's ...

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 ...

"Madama Butterfly" has its Wagnerian influences, and those were the one that the L.A. Opera chose to explore with its latest offering of the Puccini warhorse. “Madama Butterfly” has its Wagnerian ...

Qualms, based on Robert Wilson's previous track record, that his "Madama Butterfly" would turn out high on concept and low on reality proved groundless. Original -- even iconoclastic -- as it proved, ...