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 ...