By Robert Battey Freelance Writer Fairfax, VA, October 4, 2015 – The Virginia Opera, the Richmond-based company, opened its George Mason University season on Saturday with a superb production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.” Of the four or five...
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By Terry Ponick FAIRFAX CITY, Virginia, February 19, 2015 – With sets and a pair of cast members shared with the Portland Opera for its 2013 production, the Virginia Opera presented their take on Richard Strauss’ classic one-act opera shocker “Salome” this weekend...
By Grace Jean Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” dropped anchor Friday evening at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts, where the Virginia Opera gave a clever and reverently detailed production of the British duo’s fourth opera. Mezzo-soprano Margaret...
By Anne Midgette Among opera companies, putting on musicals is all the rage. There are, the companies assure us, plenty of artistic reasons to do it: Musicals are the contemporary equivalent of opera, or musicals are a historical successor to opera that opera houses...
By John Shulson Verdi’s “La Traviata” ranks among the top 10 most done and seen operas in the repertoire. Based on “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas, “Traviata” is the typical tale of the power and pain of love. Violetta is the high society...
