September 30, 2015 – Richmond, VA – Virginia Opera, the Official Opera Company of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is pleased to announce the launch of an historic new initiative created to provide free in-school opera performances for elementary school...
By Terry Ponick Fairfax, VA, October 8, 2015 – This past weekend’s production at GMU’s Center for the Arts was loaded with fun, frolic, and the famous “Can-Can” as the entire cast goes to Hell. It’s party time in hell in Virginia Opera’s production...
By Bruce Ebert Richmond, VA, October 11, 2015 – Sometimes the houseguest singing in the shower can be really, really good – someone you would pay to see. Meredith Lustig in costume for “Orpheus in the Underworld”. Credit: Lucid Frame Productions for Virginia...
By Clarke Bustard Special correspondent Richmond, VA, October 11, 2015 – Dying is easy, comedy is hard. So goes the comedian’s adage. Dying comically? That’s really hard. What was dying had to well and truly expire before Virginia Opera’s production of Jacques...
By Robert Battey Freelance Writer Fairfax, VA, October 4, 2015 – The Virginia Opera, the Richmond-based company, opened its George Mason University season on Saturday with a superb production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.” Of the four or five...
