Cincinnati Opera brought back the chestnut “Madame Butterfly” this year. To give our coverage a “facelift,” we had a timelapse video of Cio-Cio San getting her makeup, and gave readers five reasons why Madame Butterfly should be your first opera.

Here’s the opera review. At the end of the four-opera season, readers chimed in on Facebook — so we rounded those up here.

Photo by Liz Dufour of Maria Luigia Borsi as Butterfly