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Verdi’s La Traviata shows 19th-century Paris as a place of contrasts; glamour and superficiality, love and lust, life and death. The Dietrich Theater’s 2022 season of Royal Opera on Screen continues ...

It’s one of the best-known love stories of page, stage and screen, and whether you realize it or not, you probably know the music. And its enduring popularity is why the artists of the Fargo-Moorhead ...

Leo Castaldi grew up in the world of arias and librettos as his mother was a costume designer at La Scala Milan, the Holy Grail of opera. After school he would come and see Irene Monti at work making ...

The final production of the San Diego Opera 2024-2025 season is Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata; it opens on Friday, April 25, at The San Diego Civic Theatre. Traviata is a poignant exploration of love, ...

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When Angela Gheorghiu first sang the role of Violetta at Covent Garden sixteen years ago it turned her into a star over night, so her return to the role in this staging after a gap of fourteen years ...

You'll hear complaints that Richard Eyre's 1994 staging of La traviata has grown stale. I don't agree. Overfamiliar it may be, especially to critics, but it still looks good and in a careful revival ...

Never seemingly out of The Royal Opera’s repertoire these days, having just returned for a further eleven performances, Richard Eyre’s straight-laced and serviceable staging of Verdi’s tale of ...

Richard Eyre’s 1994 Royal Opera House production of La traviata has always been persuasive, but this revival makes it feel even more multi-faceted than usual. If this is mainly because of the strength ...