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 ...

In David Henry Hwang’s prescient 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” the character of Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese opera singer and spy, deftly laid out the case against Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 opera, ...

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." ...

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 ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, on stage March 14 – April 12, 2026, in a production that dares to ask: what if everything we think we know about this classic opera is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The lines were ridiculous, and I was ready to laugh at them. But I didn't, or didn't much, and no one else did either. Song, all fluttering modesty, breathes to Gallimard of her "small, frightened ...