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 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 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 David Siegel VA, October 1-7, 2015 – Have no fears of flying off into Offenbach’s delicious musical parody of the legend of Orpheus pursuing his wife Eurydice into the Underworld. Be swept away with light, sparkling opera music and terrific voices as well as some...
By David Nicholson Contact Reporter – dbnicholson@dailypress.com VA, September 24, 2015, 8:45 PM – In the mid-1800s, Wagner, Verdi and other opera composers were writing a lot of serious stuff. Along came Jacques Offenbach who decided that he mostly wanted to...
