Editor’s note: This review was originally published in December 2018. We republish it today as the Metropolitan Opera, closed for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, will be streaming video of ...

It's easy to think of opera as little more than an affected flock of singers warbling onstage in lacy brocade with pancake makeup, chandeliers and champagne. For a film built almost completely from ...

There are few sounds as beautiful as the first bars of Verdi’s La traviata. These soft, fragile harmonies coming out of hushed strings are stunning when done right. Surely, after the pandemic’s ...

In the world of theater, Shakespeare’s Macbeth swirls with superstition. If one is performing it, you may not say the title out loud, especially backstage. You must call it, “The Scottish Play.” Why ...

“ ‘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 ...

One fancifully sinister scene in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2021-22 performance of ’La Traviata’ encapsulates why we return to the opera time and time again The Canadian Opera Company returns to ...

LA TRAVIATA needs little introduction. As one of Verdi’s most famous operas, it has moved audiences since the mid-1800s. This production, presented by Cape Town Opera and UCT Opera is no different.

“La Traviata” again. Opera goers have a hard time avoiding it, even if they want to, but apparently they don’t. Verdi’s masterpiece (based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils about a courtesan who ...