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 ...

A leading composer and conductor of opera in Germany, Manfred Gurlitt’s Jewish ancestry led to his music being banned. Emigrating to Japan, Gurlitt became a pioneer of opera and Western classical ...

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 ...