Soprano Eleni Calenos portrays the title character Cio-Cio San in Opera Santa Barbara’s ‘Madama Butterfly.’ (Zach Mendez photo) “Madama Butterfly” tells a turn-of-the-20th-century story of an American ...

As wedding traditions evolve, it becomes increasingly common to walk down the aisle to sappy, chart-toppers by Ed Sheeran or wistful acoustic covers of classic rock hits. But Johann Pachelbel's Canon ...

In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit. By Joshua Barone The start was typical: Oper ...

Puccini’s La Rondine (The Swallow) is no apprentice work. On the contrary, it was his eighth opera, composed after La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Yet it wasn’t staged at Covent Garden until ...