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 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 ...

Phil Chan believes “Madama Butterfly” should be celebrated as a masterpiece. Chan also believes the 120-year-old Puccini opera should be reclaimed and reinvented by Asian and Asian-American artists.

Deep love, betrayal and heartbreak. Giacomo Puccini’s tragic 1904 opera, “Madama Butterfly,” hits all three emotional notes. “’Madama Butterfly’ is one of the most moving human dramas that has ever ...

Pittsburgh Opera opens its 80th season with Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Set in early 1900s Japan, Madama Butterfly is often considered the pinnacle of operatic tragedy, and has become one of today's ...

One of Puccini's most popular operas, Madama Butterfly, returns to the Met for eleven performances, March 19-May 7. Set in Japan at the turn of the 20th century, the revival of Anthony Minghella's ...

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 ...

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 ...