Stage director Sam Helfrich promises that the Virginia Opera Association production of A Streetcar Named Desire, composer André Previn’s treatment of Tennessee Williams’ famous and famously quoted play, will give audiences an “an incredible actress“ in the role of...
One hundred or more years ago, when audiences saw a Puccini opera, it might have been a premiere. The Puccini and Verdi works we’re so accustomed to seeing in opera houses today once were new works, and they often generated a lot of controversy. That opportunity...
In an expansion of its usual four-opera lineup, Virginia Opera will present five operas and one operatically inclined Broadway musical in its 2013-14 Richmond season. Four of the operas — “Falstaff,” “The Magic Flute,” “Ariadne auf Naxos” and “Carmen” — will be...
Virginia Opera continues its exploration of premieres and American works in its 2013-2014 season announcement. Subscriptions are now on sale. The company will open its 39th year in September with Verdi’s “Falstaff,” a work never before mounted in...
The Virginia Opera has announced its 2013-14 season, which will showcase an impressive slate of notable directors, conductors and singers. “A lot of these people have come to us because Robin has brought them to our attention,” said Russell Allen,...
The Virginia Opera Company is making its debut at Virginia Beach’s Sandler Center with a real surprise – a brilliant, inventive new staging of “Camelot.” Brilliant? Who would have suspected it? Putting the moxie in the medieval is not likely,...
