BY RICH GRISET Sitting at the opera at the age of 14, Elaine Alvarez knew she had found her calling: She would play Mimi in “La Boheme.” “The ability that it had to capture what we go through in our lives was something I had never experienced before,” Alvarez says of...
by Sam Hall on November 15, 2015 La Bohème takes place in winter, between Christmas Eve and February. Director Kyle Lang has set the Virgina Opera’s current production in the year 1939-40, World War II, after the fall of Poland and before the invasion of France – a...
By David Siegel The Connection VA, Virginia Opera’s “La Boheme” at Center for the Arts. Where and When Puccini’s “La Boheme” performed by Virginia Opera at George Mason University, Center for the Arts, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax. Performances: Nov. 14, at 8 p.m....
By: B.J. Atkinson Virginian-Pilot correspondent November 9, 2015 If the Virginia Opera’s November production is the traditional kickoff of Hampton Roads’ holiday season, then “La Boheme,” which opened Friday, couldn’t have gotten it off...
Written by Erin Lindstrom By: April Phillips Virginian-Pilot correspondent November 6, 2015 “La Boheme,” one of the most recognizable operas of all time, is a work that celebrates the ideals, the beauty and the tragedy of youth. The bohemian characters who give the...
