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 ...

Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly has become a warhorse of the operatic repertoire in the century since its 1904 Milan premiere. American companies stage the tragic love story more frequently than ...

For most of its 123-year history, the Metropolitan Opera has had a somewhat forbidding image. Peter Gelb, the Met’s new general manager, is resolved to change that. For the first time ever, for ...

Good Butterflys are not that difficult to come by but great ones are very very rare. Ailyn Pérez fits the bill in this ...