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Madama Butterfly runs through March 28. Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the title role on March 14, 18, 21, and 27. Matthew Polenzani will sing Pinkerton March 11, 14, 19, 23 and 28. Toni Marie Palmertree ...

Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio from the Met Opera's production of Madama Butterfly. (more...) ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the “best young female singer ...

Soprano Asmik Grigorian stars as Cio-Cio-San in her Met Opera debut. Soprano Asmik Grigorian stars as Cio-Cio-San in her Met Opera debut as the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating ...

Cio-Cio-San, a.k.a. Madame Butterfly, first won hearts in an 1898 short story by an American lawyer, then in a Broadway play two years later before becoming immortal thanks to Puccini’s 1904 Italian ...

Were it not for a simple twist of fate, Eric Taylor might be reconstructing jaws instead of belting arias. The 30-year-old Utah native had long had his sights set on being an oral maxillofacial ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a live performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” ...

Leading sopranos Hui He and Ana María Martínez share the heartbreaking title role of the doomed geisha, with tenors Piero Pretti and Andrea Carè as the American naval officer who abandons her. The ...