Amanda Palmeiro (Butterfly), left, and Brian Arreola (Pinkerton) in the English version of “Butterfly,” the stripped-down retooling of Puccini’s opera that the In Series is offering this month. (RX ...
Puccini’s Madame Butterfly has always suffered from a kind of triple cultural vision. Based on an American story (by John Luther Long) and play (by David Belasco), it tells what an Italian thinks an ...