when reproving her friends for addressing her as ''Madama Butterfly'' now that she is ''Madama F. B. Pinkerton'') and the occasional bending of Puccini's melodic line. It is finely sung, but in no ...

Puccini’s 1904 opera Madama Butterfly – the sixth-most-performed in the world – is often criticized for its Western stereotypes of Eastern cultures. Even the most sensitive modern ...

Based on a true story that stunned the world, and inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, M. Butterfly was an immediate sensation when it premiered in 1988. It opens in the cramped ...

The future of “Madama Butterfly” at the Canadian Opera Company is — pun not intended — up in the air. Joshua Chong is a Toronto-based arts critic and culture reporter for the Star.

With operas such as 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme,' Giacomo Puccini still dominates the repertoire of opera houses around the world 100 years after his death. The world of opera was ...

has returned to the Canadian Opera Company for an eight-show run in a new-to-Toronto production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” ...

Italy's Giacomo Puccini, famed for operas such as "Madame Butterfly", was panned by contemporary critics but harnessed then-novel technology such as records and cinema to become a global star ...

I am always a big softie for Puccini’s music and there’s a lot to love about this production. My companion was relatively new to opera and enjoyed this performance immensely. Madama Butterfly ...

Read more The fifth of seven children, he was christened Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo ... third of this remarkable trilogy written by the same three men, Madama Butterfly. Puccini once ...

Madama Butterfly is, with Bohème, the most loved and staged of Puccini’s works. This Blu-ray production was staged at the 2007 Puccini Festival in Italy’s Torre del Lago, Puccini’s home town.