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A Day in DC with Madama Butterfly

by Melissa Wimbish Having lived in Baltimore for about a year and a half now, I was ashamed that this adventure to see Madama Butterfly would be my first of any Washington National Opera production. My comrade, Laura had just gotten off the plane from Dayton, Ohio on Tuesday afternoon and in less than two [...]

Nobody Likes a Squashed Butterfly

by Melissa Wimbish San Francisco Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly seems to have disappointed Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle. He begins: “The largely lackluster production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly that opened Tuesday night at the San Francisco Opera does have enough things going for it to provide an intermittently gripping evening of musical [...]

Teresa Eickel’s Butterfly is All That

by Christie Connolley The review by Richard Scheinin of the San Jose Mercury News is a singer’s dream, one that will probably force Teresa Eickel to edit her bio to include all of the praise that the reviewer doles out. “One of the gratifying things about live performance is its absolute unpredictability. You’re sitting there [...]

Spring in New York City

New York City Opera to begin its 2010 Spring Season on March 18 with sparkling gala performance of L’Étoile Celebratory opening performance of Chabrier’s comic gem to be followed by an Opera Ball, with waltzes performed by the New York City Opera Orchestra Spring Season continues with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Handel’s Partenope, the free annual [...]

NYCO and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Continue Successful Collaboration

(Published courtesy of New York City Opera) Following the success of Black History at New York City Opera, last season’s  inaugural series of events co-presented by New York City Opera and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, City Opera returns to the Schomburg Center in 2010 for three new collaborative programs celebrating the [...]