sentences:  In 2005, Malfitano started a second career as an opera director, with a "Madama Butterfly" for Central City Opera (the company with which she made her professional singing debut in 1972).Since then, she has created productions for La Monnaie, Florida Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera's Merola programme, English National Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Canadian Opera Company.She is currently a member of the voice faculty at Manhattan School of Music along with Cynthia Hoffmann, Edith Bers, Marlena Malas, and others.