By Anne Midgette December 4 at 4:11 PM I don’t mean to, but I often come to the Virginia Opera with low expectations. It’s a regional company, and its performances in the Washington area are at a university performing arts center, about a 45-minute...
By ANDREW GARRIGUE Celebrating its bicentennial, Rossini’s masterpiece “The Barber of Seville” is a staple of opera companies around the world. Presented by Virginia Opera on Friday in the Carpenter Theatre at Dominion Arts Center, this “Barber of Seville” is a...
By M.D. Ridge Correspondent Virginia Opera’s new production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” which opened Friday at the Harrison Opera House, has it all: truly gorgeous singing, John Baril’s crisp conducting, Michael Shell’s inventive direction and, not...
Richmond, Norfolk, Fairfax, VA (November 7, 2016) On Tuesday, November 22 Virginia Opera will present its annual public Master Teacher Series featuring Scottish Stage Director, Paul Curran. From Bucharest to the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Curran has traveled...
Norfolk, Richmond, Fairfax, VA (October 26, 2016) Virginia Opera presents rising-star baritone, Will Liverman as Figaro in seven performances next month of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Originally from Hampton Roads, the Governor’s School for the Arts...
