Dancing. Drinking. Drama. Matadors. Pittsburgh Opera’s production of “La traviata,” which opened Saturday night at the Benedum Center, has something for everyone to enjoy. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi, ...

Time is the big villain in Verdi’s “La Traviata,” and in case you don’t get it, director Wily Decker puts a huge clock on stage even before the overture begins. At 11 Saturday morning in the Fort ...

La Traviata, means 'the fallen woman' and the character Giorgio insists that her past history has fallen too far in the eyes of God for her ever to be redeemed. These have been difficult times for the ...

Above : Nadine Sierra stars in The Met: Live in HD’s performance of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” (Photo/The Metropolitan Opera) Some critics write reviews that sound more like fanboy love letters. That ...

VERDI'S La Traviata and Puccini's La Boheme are the two finest examples of the boy-meets-girl, they-fall-in-love, girl-dies classic opera plot, and in both cases, the drama is usually enhanced by ...

Among the operatic heroines who cough tragically, sing spectacularly and then, at evening’s end, must die (still doing both), Verdi’s Violetta is both a prototype and the queen. This is especially so ...

Amongst the most popular of Verdi’s operas, La traviata is the work of a master of the musical drama. Its perfumed arias and soaring choruses vividly depict the ravishingly decadent but glamorous ...

‘Scilla Cristiano is one of the best lyric sopranos in the world,” says Joshua Collier, artistic director of Opera Vermont. “I’ve heard so many lyric sopranos, household names that appear on big ...

There’s not much vocal shapeliness about conductor Michael Hofstetter’s chilly account of the Prelude (apart from a few surprising blaze-ups, the rest is efficient rather than ideally fluent). And we ...

Two of the most popular operas in the repertoire come to Brighton's Theatre Royal next week. Verdi's La Traviata and Mozart's Don Giovanni have both been given makeovers by English Touring Opera, one ...

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