So why do audiences keep returning to Madama Butterfly? The answer lies in the music and the singing. The pacing risks becoming dramatically tedious, but Puccini’s score remains sumptuous and ...

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It’s not often that you hear two singers sharing an opera’s leading-tenor role in the same evening. On Saturday, the opening night of Seattle Opera’s “Madame Butterfly” had a bit of extra drama: two ...

Saturday’s opening of the Sarasota Opera winter season was bristling with pre-show anticipation for “Madame Butterfly,” arguably Giacomo Puccini’s best. By the final curtain call, the audience was ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. After over two years without a fully-staged opera production, there's something ...

She dies in the end. Of course, you already knew that. Or … does she, after all? New questions are posed in Detroit Opera’s arresting production of “Madame Butterfly,” which still has two performances ...