Just as Butterfly is trapped with little agency in this opera, we as Asian Americans have been trapped by many of the ...

Kaori Sato has sung the title role in "Madame Butterfly" in more than 10 different productions. She isn't sick of it, but notes dryly that it's the part she's most often offered. "This year, I'm ...

NEW YORK — “The Noh is unquestionably one of the great arts of the world,” poet Ezra Pound wrote in 1916, “and it is quite possibly one of the most recondite.” Over the 20th century, this traditional ...

Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 “Madama Butterfly,” the opera about a tragic love affair between a young Japanese woman and an American naval officer in 19th century Nagasaki is, of course, thematically ...

The last time American soprano Corinne Winters sang with San Diego Opera in 2017, she played the dying courtesan Violetta in Verdi’s in “La traviata.” Now she’s back as the doomed heroine Cio-Cio San ...

Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created more than 30,000 artworks during an extraordinary nine-decade career. One image in particular from two centuries ago - the picture The Great Wave off ...