Qualms, based on Robert Wilson's previous track record, that his "Madama Butterfly" would turn out high on concept and low on reality proved groundless. Original -- even iconoclastic -- as it proved, ...

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.

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The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo Puccini. The story, which will be staged at the Brown Theater on Nov. 15 ...

Following a small-scale production of “Bluebeard’s Castle” at Kennesaw State University, the Atlanta Opera began its 2022-23 main stage season in full force Oct. 29 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts ...

During an interview backstage at the Calderwood Pavilion, where Boston Lyric Opera was rehearsing Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” Phil Chan, the dancer, choreographer, and advocate who’s directing the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The history and curiosity behind these operas, both set in Asia, complicate often simplistic criticisms of borrowing and stereotyping. By Zachary ...

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 ...

Qualms, based on Robert Wilson's previous track record, that his "Madama Butterfly" would turn out high on concept and low on reality proved groundless. Original -- even iconoclastic -- as it proved, ...

When Japanese audiences encountered Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”—a sumptuous Italianate treatment of a geisha’s doomed love for an American naval officer—they found it implausible, insulting, and ...