MOBILE, Alabama—The two productions in Mobile Opera's 2013-2014 season are set in The Land of the Rising Sun. But the country of Japan is all they have in common. Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," ...

Ah, “Madama Butterfly,” Puccini’s classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other –– in Italian. It is a ...

Opera San José will continue its 42nd season, devoted to exploring the question “what is love?,” with Puccini's tragic ...

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 ...

TOKYO >> The Ukrainian song has no words. When Oksana Stepanyuk, an award-winning soprano with The Japan Opera Foundation, performs “Melody,” composed by Myroslav Skoryk, her voice turns into a wail ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- Even if you've already seen "The Mikado" many times and know all the words to famous songs like "Three Little Maids from School," and "Behold The Lord-High Executioner," you still ...

TOKYO >> The Ukrainian song has no words. When Oksana Stepanyuk, an award-winning soprano with The Japan Opera Foundation, performs “Melody,” composed by Myroslav Skoryk, her voice turns into a wail ...

FREDONIA – The 1891 Fredonia Opera House will present Van Gogh & Japan, a special cinematic exploration of how the revered artist’s was influenced by Japanese art, today at 7 p.m. as part of its Art & ...

Oksana Stepanyuk, right, a Ukrainian soprano opera singer living in a Tokyo suburb, and Masafumi Akikawa, a Japanese tenor singer, sing as Sayaka Kojima plays piano during a charity concert in ...

Oksana Stepanyuk, a Ukrainian soprano opera singer living in a Tokyo suburb, sings during a charity concert in Kokubunji, west of Tokyo, Thursday, April 14, 2022. Stepanyuk, who has been singing in ...