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I need to begin this review with an apology to the people sitting near me and my friend Katie at the Ordway on Saturday night. When the dying courtesan Violetta beckoned her lover Alfredo close, then ...

When operagoers are very lucky and all the stars align, we get a production like Seattle Opera’s new “La Traviata,” running through May 21: an imaginative, beautifully cast presentation of a great ...

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 ...

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“ ‘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 ...

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 ...

Cecilia Violetta López vividly remembers when she realized she had something in common with Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic heroine, Violetta, in “La Traviata.” While studying music in college, she was ...

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 ...

Time is running out for Violetta (Sonya Yoncheva) and Alfredo (Michael Fabiano) in ‘La Traviata”. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. And, perhaps not so coincidentally, that phrase sums up how one must ...

Generally speaking, opera companies see themselves as having two functions: offering new or unusual work, and offering productions of the classics to please or appease their core audience. The ...

In a good performance, Verdi’s romantic masterpiece La traviata can seem one of the greatest music dramas in existence. If ENO’s new version did not quite suggest this, it was nevertheless an ...