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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British opera company the Royal Opera will stage a version of the classical opera “Madame Butterfly” this month with the racist ...

Opera Colorado will present Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, directed by Mo Zhou, who reframes ...

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 ...

Madame Butterflyis on its way to the Wortham stage thanksto Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Art by Houston Grand Opera However others choose to see her, Cio-Cio-San is not a victim despite her suicide in ...

What do Norfolk and Nagasaki have in common? Both are historic ports, of course, that likely have had their share of macho mariners loving and leaving hapless residents behind. Let all self-styled ...

For the first time in 25 years, Giacomo Puccini’s grand opera “Madama Butterfly” will be staged in Baton Rouge. Opéra Louisiane will stage the performance Sunday, March 8, in the Baton Rouge River ...

The last time American soprano Corinne Winters sang with San Diego Opera in 2017, she played the dying courtesan Violetta in Verdi’s in “La traviata.” Now she’s back as the doomed heroine Cio-Cio San ...

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." ...

Is there any more tuneful “star turn” in opera than Cio-Cio-San’s entrance in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly? Besotted with American naval officer Pinkerton, on shore leave in Nagasaki, the young ...