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

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.

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 ...

Check out footage from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, the story of a faithful but doomed geisha in love with B.F. Pinkerton, ...

Madama Butterfly runs through March 28. Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the title role on March 14, 18, 21, and 27. Matthew Polenzani will sing Pinkerton March 11, 14, 19, 23 and 28. Toni Marie Palmertree ...

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 ...

Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio from the Met Opera's production of Madama Butterfly. (more...) ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is reimagining Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" this spring as a reality video game, where the player assumes the role of Pinkerton, recasting the character as someone lost in ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

A student who was at a Dublin discussion with Evans told me her essential concept, and I thought it sounded promising: at Pinkerton’s funeral many years later than Puccini’s ending, his wife Kate ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a live performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” ...