This is a difficult opera to stage now, and director Matthew Ozawa has found an effective solution. And audiences still hear every note of Puccini’s beloved 1904 score.

Add Axios on Google Kara Son plays Butterfly/Cio Cio San and Nozomi Kato is Suzuki in the latest production of "Madama ...

Madama Butterfly” is one of the most frequently performed of all operas with gorgeous music that enraptures listeners. It is a masterpiece that survived a 1904 opening which flopped, and ...

Matthew Ozawa uses lavish spectacle and heartfelt performances while exploring Puccini's orientalism through VR in this Lyric ...

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 ...

Florentine Opera's new production of "Madama Butterfly" makes it possible to enjoy the beauty of Puccini's music without cringing at the staging. By shifting the story, set in Nagasaki, Japan, from ...

There’s a moment during the San Francisco Playhouse production of David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly” when the fetching Peking Opera performer Song Liling (a man dressed as a woman) half turns to the ...