Los Angeles Times

‘Madama Butterfly’ like never before: Sung in Japanese and English, with ethnically accurate casting

Ah, “Madama Butterfly,” Puccini’s classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other –– in Italian. It is a ...
LAist

Madame Butterfly Is Finally Being Done In The Actual Languages The Characters Speak -- And You Can See It In Little Tokyo

Madame Butterfly is a standard, remaining one of the most popular operas in the world more than a century after its creation. But there's one central question about the cross-culture love story that ...
Dallas Morning News

Review: Despite promise, Santa Fe Opera’s M. Butterfly is a letdown

Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim as Song Liling and baritone Mark Stone as René Gallimard in rehearsal for 'M. Butterfly' at the Santa Fe Opera. Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera SANTA FE, N.M. — In ...
The Spokesman-Review

Review: Elizabeth Caballero, cast mates soar in INO’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ at the Fox

Recommended recording: Giacomo Puccini, “Madama Butterfly,” Maria Callas, Nicolair Gedda, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. Warner/EMI Though the Inland ...
CBS News

Boston Lyric Opera's "Madama Butterfly" puts Asian American culture in the spotlight

BOSTON - In their season opener, Boston Lyric Opera is looking at "Madama Butterfly" with modern eyes. The production moves the time and setting of the tragic love story from the original 1904 ...