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 ...

The final days of the San Francisco Opera's summer season have brought with them a lively new cast for the company's iffy production of Verdi's "La Traviata," headed by soprano Elizabeth Futral as the ...

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 ...

Opera San José has revealed the programming for the company’s 42nd season, which will include classic Italian operatic favorites that all explore the question, “What is love?” The 2025-2026 season ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Verdi’s “La traviata” is one of the most popular operas of all time, filled with all the vital ingredients of a classic: beautiful arias, a romantic story line, a doomed heroine and a passionate hero.

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 ...