Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the ...

Madama Butterfly, the three-act classic opera by Giacomo Puccini and inspired by the play Madama Butterfly by David Belasco.

Giacomo Puccini certainly knew how to stir a controversy, if only a century after his death. Madama Butterfly, first ...

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures ...

Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori, nicknamed "Madame Butterfly" for her signature winged motifs, has died. She was 96. She died of old age in her Tokyo home on 11 August and was given a private ...

Puccini's much loved opera, Madama Butterfly, graces the magnificent harbour-top stage for Opera On Sydney Harbour. Performed by Opera Australia. Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Hungarian State Opera will make its Taiwan debut in April 2025, bringing classic performances of ...

The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo Puccini. The story, which will be staged at the Brown Theater on Nov.

They are currently apearing in an Opera Australian's production 'Madama Butterfly' as actors. The cast of Opera Australia's production of Madama Butterfly on Sydney Harbour at Mrs Macquaries Point ...

Calling Puccini’s 1904 opera Madame Butterfly problematic would be an understatement. The wildly popular Italian opera takes place in Japan when a 15-year-old Japanese girl, Cio-Cio-San (aka ...