Austin Lyric Opera has one more performance of Madame Butterfly tonight. We attended the Saturday opera, and while we weren't blown away, we weren't disappointed, either. Madame Butterfly is Giacomo Puccini's tale of a Japanese geisha done wrong by an American sailor, Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton. Pinkerton marries a young Cio-Cio San (aka Butterfly), mainly to sleep with her. He explains to his friend that upon his return to America, he will marry a......

MONDAY [20] film • Cine Las Americas presents Letters from the Other Side at Carver Museum (6:30pm, Free) film • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple at Alamo Downtown (7pm) film • Mouchette at Texas Union (7:30pm) film • "City of Men," Episodes 5 & 6 at Spider House (8pm, Free) film • Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Rounders Pizzeria (8pm, Free) film • Who Killed the Electric Car at Café......

This weekend the Austin Lyric Opera presents their production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly to open their twentieth season. This early twentieth-century opera is still quite popular; it has been one of the most-performed operas in North America for the past twenty years. Set in 1904, the Italian opera tells the story of a young Japanese girl who falls in love with (and marries) an American sailor in Japan. They make beautiful music together, she......