Watch Ailyn Pérez sings an excerpt from Cio-Cio-San’s Act II aria in an early stage rehearsal for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

SeokJong Baek sings Pinkerton’s Act III aria in this video from an early stage rehearsal of Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera, alongside Andrzej Filończyk as Sharpless.

Well, this is the loudest Madama Butterfly I’ve ever experienced. So I thought during much of the first act of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s semi-staged presentation Friday night, at the Meyerson ...

BOSTON - In their season opener, Boston Lyric Opera is looking at "Madama Butterfly" with modern eyes. The production moves the time and setting of the tragic love story from the original 1904 ...

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 ...

"Madama Butterfly" premiered in 1904 and is one of the world's most popular and widely performed operas. The Boston Lyric Opera has reimagined the production for today’s audience, stage director Phil ...

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. Sign up ...

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.

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Calgary Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is the season opener for the company. This is the sixth time the company has presented the opera, the first being the first opera I ...