PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' takes flight at the Academy of Music. "In the original production it's a Japanese girl," says Karen Chia-ling Ho, who plays Cio Cio San, the ...

The title role of Madame Butterfly in Opera Philadelphia's production is represented by a puppet, voiced and manipulated by Karen Chia-ling Ho. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

Detroit Opera re-imagines “Madame Butterfly” with an Asian American creative team. We’re taking viewers behind the scenes of Detroit Opera’s re-envisioned production of “Madame Butterfly.” Led by an ...

Opera Philadelphia closes its current season with a new production of Puccini’s beloved “Madame Butterfly,” an opera that illuminates and ultimately transcends harmful stereotypes, empowering the ...

Utah Opera plans a 2025 staging of Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” — historically a controversial work because of its stereotyped depictions of Japanese women — with a twist: It has a production ...

This was the penultimate performance of the last of three different productions of Madama Butterfly that have done the rounds so far this season, and the final port of call of WNO’s three month Spring ...

When Anthony Minghella’s Madam Butterfly first burst onto the Coliseum stage in 2005, little did we know that by the time of its third revival, a mere four years later, its creator would sadly be with ...