Dancing. Drinking. Drama. Matadors. Pittsburgh Opera’s production of “La traviata,” which opened Saturday night at the Benedum Center, has something for everyone to enjoy. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi, ...

If you want to know how big an impact “La Traviata” has had on the life and career of soprano Corinne Winters, take a peek at her back. Last year, the London-based singer had a large camellia blossom ...

The label of elitism sticks to opera like superglue. The label is a fake, but one for which no cultural chemical capable of removing it has yet proved effective. Still, opera populists are trying and ...

Opera is full of hardcore traditionalists who do not want to see the biggies by Mozart, Verdi and Puccini modernized and otherwise updated with laptops, and talk of cellphones, texting, instant ...

There’s not much vocal shapeliness about conductor Michael Hofstetter’s chilly account of the Prelude (apart from a few surprising blaze-ups, the rest is efficient rather than ideally fluent). And we ...

“ ‘La traviata’ last night a failure. Was it my fault or the singers’? Time will tell.” Verdi wrote this in reaction to the worst premiere of his mature career. He didn’t have to wait long for time to ...

The opera La Traviata tops off the series Opera in the Heights has built around the 200th anniversary of composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday. The tragic but beautiful story of Violetta, a courtesan ...

Palm Beach Opera presents Verdi's La traviata at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts from February 21-23, 2025. This classic opera tells the story of Violetta, a courtesan caught in a web of ...

If you’re an opera buff or even a casual classical music concertgoer, you’re likely to have attended productions of “La Traviata” in the past. You know the story: Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic 1853 opera ...

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