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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FREDONIA – The 1891 Fredonia Opera House will present Van Gogh & Japan, a special cinematic exploration of how the revered artist’s was influenced by Japanese art, today at 7 p.m. as part of its Art & ...