Under the stage direction of Scott Skiba and music direction of Susan Davenny Wyner, Opera Western Reserve will present the Giuseppe Verdi opera at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Powers Auditorium. Composed by ...
Florida Grand Opera (FGO)’s 82nd season opens in the glittering salons of 19th century Paris, where the hottest party girl in town sips champagne and harbors a terrible secret. La traviata (The Fallen ...
Spring: It’s a time of renewal when the sap rises, flowers bloom, and one’s “fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” (Thank you, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.) Fittingly, the University of Iowa Opera’s ...
What if staging great opera isn’t as treacherously complicated as they would have us believe? What if a performance as communicative and powerful as the Saturday, Sept. 23, opening of “La Traviata” at ...
‘Scilla Cristiano is one of the best lyric sopranos in the world,” says Joshua Collier, artistic director of Opera Vermont. “I’ve heard so many lyric sopranos, household names that appear on big ...
A classic Verdi opera that shouldn’t be missed and a Violetta in the making Updated from an earlier feature by Andrew Lohmann to reflect the current production. After 30 years of continual revivals, ...
San Diego Opera audiences were introduced to Canadian soprano Andriana Chuchman’s talent in 2017, when she played the role of the heartbroken Micaëla in “The Tragédie of Carmen.” But David Bennett, ...
opinion down the middle, which is what English National Opera’s new staging of La traviata will achieve if my opening-night eavesdroppings are anything to go by. One voice was ecstatic, another ...