The opera La Traviata tops off the series Opera in the Heights has built around the 200th anniversary of composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday. The tragic but beautiful story of Violetta, a courtesan ...

VERDI'S La Traviata must be one of the most often performed of all operas, so the temptation must be great for a director to do something different. In this case, however, it was a temptation that ...

Opera is full of hardcore traditionalists who do not want to see the biggies by Mozart, Verdi and Puccini modernized and otherwise updated with laptops, and talk of cellphones, texting, instant ...

“ ‘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 ...

But so impassioned is American soprano Corinne Winters’s Violetta that to rob her of any meaningful relationships with the man she loves and the father she’s supposed to soften tears the heart out of ...

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 ...

Palm Beach Opera presents Verdi's La traviata at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts from February 21-23, 2025. This classic opera tells the story of Violetta, a courtesan caught in a web of ...

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 ...

The label of elitism sticks to opera like superglue. The label is a fake, but one for which no cultural chemical capable of removing it has yet proved effective. Still, opera populists are trying and ...

Not for the first time, English National Opera finds itself financially red-faced – the victim of tumbling box-office receipts and Arts Council cuts. What the organisation needs at this juncture is a ...

opinion down the middle, which is what English National Opera’s new staging of La traviata will achieve if my opening-night eavesdroppings are anything to go by. One voice was ecstatic, another ...

Ruth Knight’s revival of Peter Konwitschny’s stripped-down production triumphs, with Nicole Chevalier delivering a thrilling central performance Does this Violetta sing the high E flat in La ...