Presenting opera’s ‘victimized women’ as heroines is enough to strip this concert of its context, while those who turn every ...

The Missing Part,” the sequel to Jasmila Žbanić’s Oscar and BAFTA-nominated movie which has just started shooting Bosnia and ...

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Fifty years ago, the young Mark Elder conducted his first Covent Garden performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto, the opera adapted from Victor Hugo’s play about the tragic court jester tricked by his ...

Those accustomed to the grandeur of larger houses like the Metropolitan Opera might approach a performance at the Virginia Opera with moderated expectations, but the company proves such caution ...

Now looming large at our own Virginia Opera, “Aida” is grand opera with an equally monumental history: in its origins, its past performances and its theatrical punch. This particular “Aida” is large ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Through countless hours of practice and prep work, Virginia Opera got ready to show Aida. Then the COVID pandemic happened, shutting it down in March 2020. Six years later, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Through countless hours of practice and prep work, Virginia Opera got ready to show Aida. Then the COVID ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida,” set in ancient Egypt, has a reputation for being the grandest of grand operas. How grand, you ask? Well, some productions feature a parade of live elephants. Historians debate ...

This year’s Best Original Song nominees at the Oscars are a blues number, a K-Pop ditty, a Nick Cave ballad, an inspirational Diane Warren track … and an aria? Well, yeah. Nicholas Pike’s “Sweet ...

Hampton Roads, Richmond, Fairfax, VA – Virginia Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental masterpiece Aida, returning to the company’s mainstage after more than a decade—and following its ...

The soprano was the daughter of a Negro carpenter from Laurel, Miss. The tenor was the son of a naval engineer from Ancona, Italy. Together on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last week, Leontyne ...