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 ...

The song is so ubiquitous and well-known that it was one of the first songs broadcast from space when astronauts on the Gemini 6 spacecraft performed a version for mission control in 1965. "Jingle ...

AN acclaimed opera is set to return to the stage in Malvern. Madama Butterfly, directed by Ellen Kent, will be performed by the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv. The show features a Japanese ...

When betrayal inevitably strikes and Butterfly must endure both shame and sorrow, she decides to take destiny into her own hands, leading to one of the most devastating and legendary final scenes in ...

Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino. Also, Armani Privé and Chanel keep things moving and Gaurav Gupta ...

In Madama Butterfly, an important plot point hinges on Japanese religions, and they don’t seem to be aware that there’s a difference between Buddhism and Shintoism. To a twenty-first-century ...

Richard Devletian is known for Madama BUTTERfly (2010) and Game Time: Tackling the Past (2011).

This song earned the princess of pop a Grammy and a place on the Hot 100 chart when it debuted in 2004. The rest of the top 10 most popular songs to listen to while doing chores are listed below.

Published in 1913, the resultant song, which he called “Danny Boy,” would become one of the most popular songs of the last 100 years, recorded by everyone from Judy Garland and Bing Crosby to ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT CHRISTIAN SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY ADULT POP AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY MEDIABASE AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. Myles Smith Last week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart M.Smith, P.J.Fenn ...