This month, The Agenda News features Virginia Opera’s 3rd production, The Magic Marksman. The Agenda News.com Virginia Opera Virginia Opera will present The Magic Marksman (Der Freischütz)by Carl Maria von Weber at George Mason...
Virginia Opera presents its third production of the 2016-2017 Season with The Magic Marksman (Der Freischütz) by Carl Maria von Weber in Norfolk, Richmond and Fairfax from January 27, 2017 through February 19, 2017. Why certain operas are...
By Anne Midgette December 4 at 4:11 PM I don’t mean to, but I often come to the Virginia Opera with low expectations. It’s a regional company, and its performances in the Washington area are at a university performing arts center, about a 45-minute...
By ANDREW GARRIGUE Celebrating its bicentennial, Rossini’s masterpiece “The Barber of Seville” is a staple of opera companies around the world. Presented by Virginia Opera on Friday in the Carpenter Theatre at Dominion Arts Center, this “Barber of Seville” is a...
By M.D. Ridge Correspondent Virginia Opera’s new production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” which opened Friday at the Harrison Opera House, has it all: truly gorgeous singing, John Baril’s crisp conducting, Michael Shell’s inventive direction and, not...
When the verismo style hit stages in Italy, people took notice. BY RICH GRISETStyle Weekly For the first time, opera left the realm of fairy tales and historical figures, focusing instead on the problems of normal people. And one of the most well-known verismo...
