Calling Puccini’s 1904 opera Madame Butterfly problematic would be an understatement. The wildly popular Italian opera takes place in Japan when a 15-year-old Japanese girl, Cio-Cio-San (aka ...

Amid the elegance of Zurich’s Opera House, 'Madame Butterfly' unfolds a deeply moving tale of passion and sorrow, leaving an unforgettable ...

With operas such as 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme,' Giacomo Puccini still dominates the repertoire of opera houses around the world 100 years after his death. The world of opera was ...

Puccini’s 1904 opera Madama Butterfly – the sixth-most-performed in the world – is often criticized for its Western stereotypes of Eastern cultures. Even the most sensitive modern ...

To a twenty-first-century ear, Puccini’s efforts to incorporate Japanese modal motifs sound inauthentic and appropriative. Nevertheless, Madam Butterfly has been a beloved operatic character for ...

Giacomo Puccini was a musical genius and gave the world some of the most beautiful and memorable operas of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as La Bohème, Madam Butterfly and Turandot. His ...

The future of “Madama Butterfly” at the Canadian Opera Company is — pun not intended — up in the air. Joshua Chong is a Toronto-based arts critic and culture reporter for the Star.

The Toronto revival of Michael Grandage’s straightforward but elegant production shields Puccini’s genius from contemporary ...

Entitled “David Liebman Plays Puccini: A Walk in the Clouds”, the recording features arias from “Madam Butterfly”, “La Boheme”, “Turandot”, and “Tosca”, amongst others. “…passionate and rhythmically ...

Four years after the premiere of Tosca came the third of this remarkable trilogy written by the same three men, Madama Butterfly. Puccini once more went to great pains not to repeat himself musically ...