From its second act onward, the San Francisco Opera's new production of "La Traviata" attempts something radically new with Verdi's familiar melodrama. In this version, which opened Saturday night at ...

A week ago the presence of a superstar singer ensured that the Royal Opera’s Simon Boccanegra was a far from routine revival. Now, Angela Gheorghiu does the same for La traviata, returning to Richard ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, “La Traviata,” or the fallen woman, will be the Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast at the Breckenridge Colorado Mountain College at 11 a.m. today. The opera story is based on ...

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If the result was at times uneven, it also had an energy, an uncertainty, that gave it a freshness lacking in more polished revivals. El-Khoury's is a voice worth waiting forHere is an Act I Violetta ...

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 ...

The tender halo of light that opens La traviata is chilled and stiffened in conductor Michael Hofstetter's reading of Verdi's opera for English National Opera. There is no bloom here, no consoling ...

Once you know the L.A. Opera's new "La Traviata" begins on a Paris sidewalk with streetwalkers plying their trade under a streetlamp, and Violetta arriving in a snazzy town car, you might suspect the ...

Lyric Opera's production of Verdi's La Traviata on Saturday had many good qualities, not least David Jones's positive conducting and Vivian Coates's lucid direction. But it was let down by the ...