When Cyndi Lauper reveals her favorite music, it's not a pop anthem but a poignant piece that speaks of love, loss, and hope ...

Puccini’s habit of citing popular Japanese songs did not help matters. As Arthur Groos points out in “Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai,” a new book about the opera’s Japanese sources and ...

A scene are from ''Unholy Wars,'' a selection of songs from early Baroque opera that tell a story ... Later next season, Opera Philadelphia will stage a version of “Madame Butterfly,” an opera often ...

The passionate melodies Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" are poised to captivate Utah audiences once again, but this time with a bold new vision that honors its timeless beauty while inviting a ...

Jan van Rij's interest in the story behind Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" began on a visit to Nagasaki when he was working here in the 1980s. "I visited Glover Garden with all its ...

Nowhere was an audience more vocal in its disapproval than when Madame Butterfly fluttered into being at La Scala in 1904. The audience was already resistant to the opera as Puccini had been so ...