Posted: The final duet. Jon Silla BY PHILLIP LARRIMORE Correspondent-JANUARY 25, 2016 6:02 PM “Romeo and Juliet” has inspired more great music than any other play known to man, ranging from Tchaikovsky’s gobsmacked concert fantasy to Prokofiev’s doom-laden ballet (not...
By Montague Gammon III “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” is hardly the sort of comment that the French born and accented, multi-lingual, multi-talented stage director-actor-designer-librettist-novelist-online journalist-educator-manager and all around theatre person...
By David Siegel on January 18, 2016 “Opera is officially dead.” So read the headline for Christopher Ingraham’s Washington Post Wonkblog. And in “one chart” yet. Ah, yes big data says it all neatly and with great certitude. Maybe. Then I decided to do my own...
Posted: January 12, 2016 Luiz Gazzola for Opera Lively – You are back to Opera Carolina, after having sung Alfredo here in La Traviata. Welcome back! What do you think of the company, and what are your expectations for this production of Roméo et Juliette?...
Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:45 pm. – BY ROY PROCTOR Special correspondent Talk about love at first glance! In Virginia Opera’s vocally resplendent take on Puccini’s “La Bohème,” now in the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond Center Stage, Mimi and Rodolfo...
Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:45 pm. – BY ROY PROCTOR Special correspondent Talk about love at first glance! In Virginia Opera’s vocally resplendent take on Puccini’s “La Bohème,” now in the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond Center Stage, Mimi and Rodolfo...
