The curtain rises on a sleekly contemporary apartment with décor that includes the muscular back of a woman warrior against a red rising sun. A man in a T-shirt and sweatpants lumbers in and opens his ...

In David Henry Hwang’s prescient 1988 play “M. Butterfly,” the character of Song Liling, a beautiful Chinese opera singer and spy, deftly laid out the case against Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 opera, ...

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For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Ailyn Pérez in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Now in its 20th season, Anthony Minghella’s 2006 production of Madama Butterfly still retains its ...

A butterfly officially classed as extinct in the UK has been seen at sites across southern England, says a conservation charity. In recent weeks there have been a flurry of sightings of the large ...

Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity The large tortoiseshell – an elusive and enigmatic butterfly that became extinct ...

A monarch butterfly is ready to emerge from its chrysalis in the Kalispell garden of one of landscaper Kathy Ross' clients last August. (Photo by Kathy Ross) A monarch butterfly caterpillar, about two ...