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.

The COC’s 2025 production of this masterpiece seamlessly blends performance practice tradition with a contemporary ...

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the ...

In trying to advance the cause of opera as a living genre, Vancouver Opera has a decent record of presenting new works. British composer Jonathan Dove’s 1998 opus Flight, which opened Saturday ...

psjazzfest.org Opera: Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" tells a tragic love story about a young Japanese woman, Butterfly, who falls in love with an American naval officer, Pinkerton.

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Vancouver Opera is honouring the 88th birthday of renowned composer Philip Glass with 88 Years ...

AN acclaimed opera is set to return to the stage in Malvern. Madama Butterfly, directed by Ellen Kent, will be performed by the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv. The show features a Japanese ...

Vancouver Opera has not staged this comic masterpiece in over 20 years, making its return all the more exciting. The production will be helmed by director Rob Herriot and conductor Leslie Dala ...

Puccini’s Japanese tragedy Madama Butterfly has somehow been caught in the eye of a ... the context or by taking special care with the central roles. The Canadian Opera Company has opted for the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American, is to be staged for the first time.