‘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 ...
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 ...
1 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 10 Revealed 2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 15 Revealed Cio-Cio-San, a captivating geisha in Nagasaki, marries B. F. Pinkerton, an ...
Helmed by a mostly Asian American creative team, BLO’s inventive new production begins in San Francisco’s glittering Chinatown circa 1941 Enter the Emerson Colonial Theatre for a performance of Boston ...
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Hiromi Omura stars in Portland Opera’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ in her signature role as Cio-Cio-San, which she has played in 14 countries and 19 productions. (Courtesy Caroline Laberge/Portland Tribune) ...
The stereotypes inherent in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”—a story built around the white imperialist male fantasy of the submissive Asian woman—have become increasingly problematic in recent years, ...
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