By Edward Reichel Deseret News Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" has the distinction of being one of the most produced operas in the United States. It's a crowd pleaser, with its beautiful melodies and heart-wrenching story of passion and shattered love. It was also one of Puccini's favorites.

Doors to the music world of the Utah Symphony - Utah Opera (USUO) will open wide for children throughout the Wasatch Front, thanks to a $15,000 donation announced today by the Qwest Foundation.

By Edward Reichel Deseret Morning News After having been turned into a movie and a play, "The Grapes of Wrath" has finally come to the operatic stage.

By Edward Reichel Deseret Morning News ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The novels of John Steinbeck are the stuff of which modern opera is made. His works chronicle the hardships of the poor as they struggle to survive in the harshness of reality.

By Edward Reichel Deseret Morning News Utah Opera will be taking a calculated risk when it presents "Ariadne auf Naxos" for a run that begins next Saturday.