Is there any more tuneful “star turn” in opera than Cio-Cio-San’s entrance in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly? Besotted with American naval officer Pinkerton, on shore leave in Nagasaki, the young ...
Watch Ailyn Pérez sings an excerpt from Cio-Cio-San’s Act II aria in an early stage rehearsal for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The title character of Madama Butterfly—a young Japanese geisha betrayed ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The immediate question raised by turning David Henry Hwang’s superb play M. Butterfly into an opera is whether ...
Jonathan Tetelman (left) stars as B.F. Pinkerton in the Los Angeles Opera production of “Madame Butterfly,” delivering a show-stealing performance full of “vocal power” and charm. (Cory Weaver / L.A.