Soprano Sandra Lopez has sung the lead role of Cio Cio-San in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” dozens of times all over the world, but this weekend will be a new first with the role. For the first time in ...

Approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes including one 20-minute intermission. Is it true love or just a fantasy? The achingly beautiful score and heartbreaking tragedy at the core of Puccini’s ...

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 ...

When I was a young man discovering the world of opera many years ago, when you only heard music in person or on the radio or on records, I would first experience a work entirely by sound. I might have ...

Puccini's Madama Butterfly will return to Opera Colorado May 2, 5, 7, 8, and 10 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, giving audiences their first chance to experience it in Denver in more than a decade.

As the leading lady of Arizona Opera’s production of “Madama Butterfly,” soprano Karen Chia-ling Ho said she is excited to be performing both with the company and in Tucson for her first time. Driven ...

This season, Sarasota Opera welcomes a new Madama Butterfly to the stage: Raquel González. González, who grew up in Kansas, trained at Juilliard, and is currently based in Champaign, Illinois, and ...

The origin's of Giacomo Puccini's three-act opera, "Madama Butterfly," resembles a game of telephone. First, American author John Luther Long wrote the short story "Madame Butterfly," published in ...

Joshua Dennis, left, rehearses the part of Pinkerton, and Teresa Perrotta sings her part in the lead role of Cio-Cio-San for Opera Louisiane's April 11 production of 'Madama Butterfly.' Madama ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Opéra Louisiane is bringing the classic opera “Madama Butterfly” to Baton Rouge on April 11 ...

Madama Butterfly's silk kimono awaits in the LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts' costume shop, but Teresa Perrotta has yet to try it on, much less think about it. She's been too busy rehearsing ...