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...
By Roy Proctor | Special correspondent Virginia Opera’s new take on the world’s most-often produced opera is vocally and instrumentally sumptuous, to be sure, but Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Carpenter Theatre opens with a visual stunner that will take your breath...
By Rich Griset Preview: Virginia Opera’s “La Traviata” explores a timeless story of forbidden love. Lucid Frame Productions Cecilia Lopez as Violetta and Rolando Sanz as Alfredo in “La Traviata,” based on a play adapted from a novel by Alexandre Dumas the younger. The...
By Terry Ponick With astonishing performances by Cecilia Violetta López and Malcolm MacKenzie, Virginia Opera’s current production of Verdi’s tuneful, tragic masterpiece is a genuine three-hankie surprise. Young soprano Cecilia Violetta López astonishes as...
By Joan Reinthaler The Virginia Opera has a fine “La Traviata” on its hands. Verdi’s sad but sumptuous opera opened Saturday for two performances at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts. And while soprano Cecilia Violetta Lopez’s Violetta may have carried the...
