Directed by Matthew Ozawa with a set by design collective dots, this production of Madame Butterfly reinvents the tragic opera while putting the fetishized white male gaze of the original ...

The Toronto revival of Michael Grandage’s straightforward but elegant production shields Puccini’s genius from contemporary ...

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 ...

Puccini and librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa are calling out the ills of practices toward Asian and other racialized women that were accepted male indulgences. Inevitably ...