Opéra Louisiane is preparing for its April 11 production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the River Center Theatre for the ...

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

The production will be performed in Giacomo Puccini's intended Italian on sets provided by the New Orleans Opera with ...

This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be completed since Puccini’s death. A new version hands that task to ...

THE ATLANTA OPERA will stage a new production of TURANDOT, featuring a reimagined ending, opening April 25 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The production marks the centennial of the opera's ...

But it is, in my judgment and others’, his perfect opera.

The story of Gilgamesh has survived 4,000 years. Now it arrives on a California opera stage, partly sung in the language it was first written in.

The 2026-2027 season for The Dallas Opera will feature four mainstage productions, two family operas, and a trio of annual events, with all productions taking place as usual at Winspear Opera House.

Discover how a play becomes a sung opera. Composer Daniela Candillari explains the process behind adapting stories like "Romeo and Juliet." ...

What changes when dialogue becomes song? Learn how orchestra, music and emotion transform plays like A Streetcar Named Desire into opera.