Puccini's Madame Butterfly is one of the most beloved operas of all time, so it would be difficult for any one of its many great tunes to outstrip the opera itself. But one of its arias comes close.

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Beloved and contentious: Madama Butterfly is both one of Puccini’s most revered works, but continues to raise questions about depictions of race, culture and gender in opera. Madame Butterfly is based ...

Performing an old chestnut without adding an element of interest merely adds a few more age lines to a timeworn work. However, in the operatic world a fresh voice can inject a lively giddy-up into an ...

Is there a more poignant heroine in all of opera than Cio-Cio-San, the fragile young Japanese geisha who meets her three-hankie demise after having been abandoned by a callous American naval officer?

NEW YORK (AP) — You’d never guess from watching her, but Kristine Opolais says that while she’s singing her heart out as Madame Butterfly she asks herself: “Oh, why, for what, all this suffering?” And ...

Not all the familiar classics in heavy rotation on the world's major opera house stages are marked by elaborately sentimental pathos, but plenty of them are. And even among these many well-loved ...