By Mal Vincent An opera opening in Norfolk is a life-affirming experience – celebratory. Even routinely, it’s about as close as the arts get to an event that mixes real pearls with dipped pearls. “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”...
By Teresa Annas NORFOLK Ron Daniels looked almost parental last week as he worked through some scenes from Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd.” The director stood in Virginia Opera’s rehearsal hall, low-key and inconspicuous in his black slacks...
Posted by Mike Paarlberg on Apr. 12, 2014 at 3:31 pm Louis C.K. has a bit in which he notes how incredible it is that women continue to go out with men, given that the number one threat to women, and chief cause of injury and mayhem to them is, well, men. The number...
By Charles T. Downey, Published: April 13 An opera company is unlikely to have a triumph, in the critical sense, by staging “Carmen,” but Georges Bizet’s story of passion and murder will fill a house. It worked for Virginia Opera, which staged the opera on Friday...
By Emily Cao on April 13, 2014 Things were very fiery this past Friday night at the GMU Center for the Arts as the Virginia Opera brings a new and exciting full-scale production of Bizet’s Carmen, one of the most renowned and certainly most dramatic operas in history,...
