Madama Butterfly is a staple of the operatic repertoire, so it is hard to believe that the original two-act version…
Written by French composer Bizet and first performed in 1875, and an adaptation of Prosper Merimee’s novella Carmen, which was…
Puccini may have been a philanderer and scoundrel, with a Hitchcock-like tendency to put his heroines through merry hell, but…