From its second act onward, the San Francisco Opera's new production of "La Traviata" attempts something radically new with Verdi's familiar melodrama. In this version, which opened Saturday night at ...

Blending digital glamour with virtual solitude, the story of Violetta Valéry, the heroine of Giuseppe Verdi, is now retold ...

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September 20, 2015 (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia is coming to the Academy of Music, next month, with a story of love and tragedy in 3 acts. Verdi's La Traviata is a classic, but Opera Philadelphia is ...

“ ‘La traviata’ last night a failure. Was it my fault or the singers’? Time will tell.” Verdi wrote this in reaction to the worst premiere of his mature career. He didn’t have to wait long for time to ...

If you’re an opera buff or even a casual classical music concertgoer, you’re likely to have attended productions of “La Traviata” in the past. You know the story: Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic 1853 opera ...

Los Angeles Opera is almost back. Not that it has gone anywhere. But after having been one of the country’s most progressive companies last decade, it had to put much of its imagination on hold in its ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed "La Traviata" in 1853, when the operatic "mad scene" was still in vogue. A character facing a grim future or impending doom could be given the gift of insanity as a means of ...

Sonya Yoncheva reprises her widely praised interpretation of the heroine Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s La Traviata, on Great Performances at the Met. Michael Fabiano is her lover, Alfredo, Thomas Hampson ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Dave Itzkoff “I do not know whose fault it was,” Verdi wrote after the first performances of “La Traviata” were panned in 1853. “It is best not to ...