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 ...

Maryland Opera’s eighth season will present Madama Butterfly, Puccini’s masterpiece of devotion and betrayal, on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. at the Church of the ...

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 ...

Arizona Opera has announced its 2025/26 Main Stage Season, in addition to the presentation of mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton in recital in 2026. Arizona Opera’s Main Stage Season and Barton’s recital will ...

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's silk kimono awaits in the LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts' costume shop, but Teresa Perrotta has yet to try it on, much less think about it. She's been too busy rehearsing ...

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 ...

Madama Butterfly is one of the all-time great operas, regularly revived and much loved by audiences. It is not hard to understand why. It has an absorbing story, plenty of drama, love and romance, ...

Joshua Dennis, left, rehearses the part of Pinkerton, and Teresa Perrotta sings her part in the lead role of Cio-Cio-San for Opera Louisiane's April 11 production of 'Madama Butterfly.' Madama ...