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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...

By David Siegel The Connection VA, Virginia Opera’s “La Boheme” at Center for the Arts. Where and When Puccini’s “La Boheme” performed by Virginia Opera at George Mason University, Center for the Arts, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax. Performances: Nov. 14, at 8 p.m....

By: B.J. Atkinson Virginian-Pilot correspondent November 9, 2015 If the Virginia Opera's November production is the traditional kickoff of Hampton Roads' holiday season, then "La Boheme," which opened Friday, couldn't have gotten it off to a more glittering start. The...

Happy 22nd Birthday Virginia Opera | Harrison Opera House  Click on the photo below to visit our facebook and take a look at before and after photos of the renovations from 1992-'93 till now! We are wishing the whole Company and our patrons a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY TO THE VIRGINIA OPERA'S HARRISON OPER HOUSE! Click on the Photo below and check out more from our archive of before and after photos of the Harrison Operas House renovation that started in 1992-1993.

By Terry Ponick Fairfax, VA, October 8, 2015 – This past weekend’s production at GMU’s Center for the Arts was loaded with fun, frolic, and the famous “Can-Can” as the entire cast goes to Hell.   It's party time in hell in Virginia Opera's production of "Orpheus...

By Clarke Bustard Special correspondent Richmond, VA, October 11, 2015 – Dying is easy, comedy is hard. So goes the comedian’s adage. Dying comically? That’s really hard. What was dying had to well and truly expire before Virginia Opera’s production of Jacques...

By Bruce Ebert Richmond, VA, October 11, 2015 – Sometimes the houseguest singing in the shower can be really, really good - someone you would pay to see. Meredith Lustig in costume for “Orpheus in the Underworld”. Credit: Lucid Frame Productions for Virginia Opera....

By April Phillips Virginian-Pilot correspondent Virginia, September 25, 2015 – Sex sells, but does it sell opera tickets? “Orpheus in the Underworld,” the Virginia Opera’s season-opening production, scandalized critics and audiences when it opened in Paris in 1858....

By Sam Hall Fairfax, VA, October 4, 2015 – I was expecting to be entertained by the Virginia Opera’s rendition of Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, directed by Sam Helfrich, which played at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts last night, but I...