Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2016 10:30 pm By HOLLY PRESTIDGE Richmond Times-Dispatch From productions rarely seen in this country to beloved opera classics that have entertained the masses for more than a century, Virginia Opera’s 2016-17 repertoire pushes...
By Montague Gammon III. That is very much the message that comes through when talking to Virginia Opera’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Adam Turner, about the upcoming production of The Flying Dutchman, which got grand reviews at the Glimmerglass Festival...
Saturday, February 27, 2016I What if a high school student doing a report on a historic opera star had the singer appear to him? Radford High School students got to explore that possibility on Thursday through a performance by the Virginia Opera Company. The company...
FEBRUARY 24, 2016 Following on the heels of the Richmond Ballet’s triumphant presentation of “Romeo & Juliet” last weekend, the Virginia Opera offered Charles Gounod’s lyrical take on the tale of the star-crossed lovers in an emotionally...
BY RICH GRISET Directing Charles Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” for his first time in 1987, Bernard Uzan acknowledged that the casting of opera legend Alfredo Kraus as the male lead didn’t make the most sense. Though the Spanish tenor’s pipes were still in fighting...
