The mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly returns to Austin Opera in April. In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San (Raquel Gonzalez), affectionately known as “Butterfly,” is seduced by the dashing U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton (Joseph Dennis). After a hasty wedding separating Cio-Cio-San from her family, […]