Opera doesn’t require massive sets, opulent costumes and crowds of vocal cords to have an impact. Approached with taste and imagination on any scale, it can stir a spectator’s emotions. No one who ...

Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...

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 ...

Palm Beach Opera is inviting audiences to experience the timeless passion and heartbreak of Verdi's La traviata on February 21-23, 2025 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. This beloved ...

Europe was already convulsed by questions of moral duplicity when La traviata’s Violetta took to the stage. Ahead of a new documentary about Verdi’s masterpiece, Tom Service examines why the tragic ...

Soprano Andriana Chuchman as Violetta in the San Diego Opera’s production of “La Traviata.” (Photo by J. Katarzyna Woronowicz/San Diego Opera) The San Diego Opera concluded its successful 2024-25 ...

La Traviata, the famous tale of the courtesan Violetta’s doomed love affair with upper-class Alfredo, is often thought of as one of Giuseppe Verdi’s grandest operas—an over-the-top tragedy amid Paris ...

Pure musical joy, in a champagne flute. Watch an incredible performance of Verdi’s operatic classic, performed at the Royal Albert Hall by two of the greatest singers of today. Fancy attending a ...

WE WERE promised “the party of the century” by Daniel Kramer in his first new production of La Traviata as English National Opera’s artistic director. We certainly get an eye-boggling curtain-raiser ...

The director’s take on Verdi’s tragic opera has costumes by Valentino and sets by Batman’s production designer … and still it is traditional and cliched Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s new production of ...