Conductor Marco Armiliato, who should perhaps be christened Signor Butterfly after leading countless performances of the ...
Watch Ailyn Pérez sings an excerpt from Cio-Cio-San’s Act II aria in an early stage rehearsal for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
An opera review by Victor Grynberg Madama Butterfly is one of the most acclaimed operas of all time. One of 12 written by ...
Making one’s role debut as Cio-Cio San in Puccini’s tragically romantic Madama Butterfly would be a rite of passage for any up-and-coming dramatic soprano, but it’s a little more complicated if, like ...