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By David Siegel on January 18, 2016 “Opera is officially dead.” So read the headline for Christopher Ingraham’s Washington Post Wonkblog. And in “one chart” yet. Ah, yes big data says it all neatly and with great certitude. Maybe. Then I decided to do my own...

Posted: January 12, 2016 Luiz Gazzola for Opera Lively - You are back to Opera Carolina, after having sung Alfredo here in La Traviata. Welcome back! What do you think of the company, and what are your expectations for this production of Roméo et Juliette? Jonathan...

Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:45 pm. - BY ROY PROCTOR Special correspondent Talk about love at first glance! In Virginia Opera’s vocally resplendent take on Puccini’s “La Bohème,” now in the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond Center Stage, Mimi and Rodolfo meet...

Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:45 pm. - BY ROY PROCTOR Special correspondent Talk about love at first glance! In Virginia Opera’s vocally resplendent take on Puccini’s “La Bohème,” now in the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond Center Stage, Mimi and Rodolfo meet...

by David Siegel on November 7, 2015 The major joy in writing this column comes from getting to know the up and coming creative artists in the DC area, especially since a whole new generation is sweeping into the area. One does not need a weather vane to know the times...

by Terry Ponick - Nov 25, 2015 Simple, straightforward staging, passionate singing make beloved Puccini favorite new once again. FAIRFAX, Virginia, November 21, 2015 – As it presents its final performances of ‘La Bohème’ in Richmond this weekend, the Virginia Opera...

By KATHERINE CALOS Richmond Times-Dispatch Wrap up everything an opera should be in a single production, and you could call it “La Bohème.” “I think it’s kind of like the perfect opera for beginners and for veterans of opera,” said Ed Parks, who’s one of four lead...

Posted by Molly Simoneau on November 18, 2015 at 1:41 pm On Saturday evening, as the world was still reeling with news of the horrific terrorist attacks that devastated Paris, Virginia Opera took the stage at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts in Fairfax...

BY RICH GRISET Sitting at the opera at the age of 14, Elaine Alvarez knew she had found her calling: She would play Mimi in “La Boheme.” “The ability that it had to capture what we go through in our lives was something I had never experienced before,” Alvarez says of...

by Sam Hall on November 15, 2015 La Bohème takes place in winter, between Christmas Eve and February. Director Kyle Lang has set the Virgina Opera’s current production in the year 1939-40, World War II, after the fall of Poland and before the invasion of France – a...