Dancing. Drinking. Drama. Matadors. Pittsburgh Opera’s production of “La traviata,” which opened Saturday night at the Benedum Center, has something for everyone to enjoy. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi, ...

If you want to know how big an impact “La Traviata” has had on the life and career of soprano Corinne Winters, take a peek at her back. Last year, the London-based singer had a large camellia blossom ...

MOUNT VERNON — An artful blend of romance and realism, beautiful melodies and vocal fireworks put “La Traviata” among the all-time favorite operas. Skagit Opera brings this Verdi masterpiece to 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In one of the most well-known and well-loved melodies in opera, the hopelessly ...

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 ...