Madama Butterfly is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire for companies around the world, ranking 7th in the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.

In the original ending of the film, Alex mimics her love of Madame Butterfly by cutting her throat with the same knife used in the opera. “When they tested it, the audience hated her so much for ...

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.

Puccini's highly acclaimed opera Madam Butterfly has returned to The Royal Albert Hall for it's fifth season, due to its outstanding success. And rightly so, for it is a stunning spectacle as the ...

Madama Butterfly is, with Bohème, the most loved and staged of Puccini’s works. This Blu-ray production was staged at the 2007 Puccini Festival in Italy’s Torre del Lago, Puccini’s home town.