Opera Cheat Sheet: Madama Butterfly

In this OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra provide their own inimitable introduction to Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 drama based on the play “Madame Butterfly” by David Belasco.Set in Nagasaki, Japan, in the early years of the twentieth century, it’s the story of the young, innocent Japanese geisha, Cio-Cio-San, and her fateful love for the “faithless” American naval lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton.Tune in to Houston Public Media’s... Read More