Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 12:00 am BY EMILY JENNINGS/FOR THE FREE LANCE-STAR Not long ago during the “Pirates of the Caribbean” craze, teenage girls everywhere obsessed over the character of Capt. Jack Sparrow, adorning bedroom walls with posters and even...
Posted: Saturday, April 16, 2016 6:00 pm By ROY PROCTOR Special correspondent – Richmond Times Dispatch From its opening storm at sea to its heaven-bound finale, Richard Wagner’s early opera “The Flying Dutchman” is several shows rolled into one in the...
Voix Des Arts 18 April 2016 PERFORMANCE REVIEW: Richard Wagner — DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (W. Tigges, C. Pier, P. Volpe, C. Bix, R. Pike, D. Blalock; Virginia Opera, 17 April 2016) RICHARD WAGNER (1813 – 1883): Der fliegende...
Saturday, February 27, 2016I What if a high school student doing a report on a historic opera star had the singer appear to him? Radford High School students got to explore that possibility on Thursday through a performance by the Virginia Opera Company. The company...
FEBRUARY 24, 2016 Following on the heels of the Richmond Ballet’s triumphant presentation of “Romeo & Juliet” last weekend, the Virginia Opera offered Charles Gounod’s lyrical take on the tale of the star-crossed lovers in an emotionally...
BY RICH GRISET Directing Charles Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” for his first time in 1987, Bernard Uzan acknowledged that the casting of opera legend Alfredo Kraus as the male lead didn’t make the most sense. Though the Spanish tenor’s pipes were still in fighting...
