{"id":61763,"date":"2016-02-22T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=61763"},"modified":"2016-02-02T23:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T03:28:45","slug":"the-metropolitan-opera-madama-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=61763","title":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 22\u00a0  08pm<br \/>\nMetropolitan Opera House At Lincoln Center<br \/>\n30 Lincoln Center Plz, New York, New York 10023<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/840x473_butterfly.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[61763]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/840x473_butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title character of Madama Butterfly\u2014a young Japanese geisha who clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage\u2014is one of the defining roles in opera. The story triggers ideas about cultural and sexual imperialism for people far removed from the opera house, and film, Broadway, and popular culture in general have riffed endlessly on it. The lyric beauty of Puccini\u2019s score, especially the music for the thoroughly believable lead role, has made Butterfly timeless.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and more information visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metopera.org\/Discover\/Synopses\/Madama-Butterfly\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.metopera.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 22\u00a0 08pm Metropolitan Opera House At Lincoln Center 30 Lincoln Center Plz, New York, New York 10023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61764,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61763\/revisions\/61764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}