Performer: Kevin Burdette

From the chrysalis of a Broadway play and then to film, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly turns full cycle into an opera by composer Huang Ruo. 

The new opera by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek draws on cult mindsets and conspiracy theories but smartly avoids sensationalism. 

Yuval Sharon's La bohème for Opera Philadelphia proves a mix of great singing and disorienting navigation.