Yoko Watanabe, the first Japanese opera soprano to have starred at the world's top four opera houses, has died in Italy, a Japan Opera Foundation official said Friday. She was 51. By Billboard Staff ...

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 ...

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—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," ...

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 ...

Yoko Watanabe, the Japanese soprano who sang the title role of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” more than 400 times, including in Los Angeles in 1999 and Costa Mesa in 1991, died July 15 at her home in ...

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 ...

After a bit part in a North Korean propaganda film 20 years ago, former U.S. soldier Charles Robert Jenkins is playing the biggest role of his mysterious life in a soap opera that has captivated the ...