By Michael Poandl Strictly speaking, I really shouldn’t like Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore. I like theatre that is dark, shocking, provocative… I’m more comfortable at Capital Fringe than Disney on Ice. So no one was more surprised than I when I found myself...
By Roy Proctor So what can audiences expect of a mid-Victorian operetta populated by characters with penny dreadful names such as Dick Deadeye, Ralph Rackstraw and Little Buttercup? Quite a charming bit, as Virginia Opera proved in the rollicking production of Gilbert...
By Brian Bochicchio The Sondheim masterwork Sweeney Todd slashed its way into George Mason University this weekend, as Virginia Opera presented its version of the darkly enthralling musical experience. Stephen Powell (Sweeney Todd) and Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Lovett)....
RICHMOND, Va. (October 15, 2014) Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that Virginia Opera received $50,000 from the Virginia Tourism Corporation Marketing Leverage Program grant fund. In total VTC awarded more than $852,000 for 46 tourism marketing projects across the...
By Tim Smith For its fortieth anniversary, Virginia Opera slid into Broadway repertoire to deliver a highly satisfying account of Stephen Sondheim’s ever-chilling Sweeney Todd, one of the organizations strongest ventures of the past decade or so. Several companies...
