The tragic story centres on the arranged marriage between the dastardly Lieutenant Pinkerton of the US Navy and the innocent geisha Cio-Cio-San, known to all as Butterfly. Pinkerton sees it merely ...

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 ...