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Vanessa Becerra as Violetta in Berkshire Opera Festival’s production of “La Traviata.” Vanessa Becerra as Violetta and Joshua Blue as Alfredo in Berkshire Opera Festival's production of "La Traviata." ...

Kentucky Opera's 2025-26 season features "La Traviata," "All is Calm," "Songbird," and "Scalia/Ginsburg." Performances will be held at the Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health, with a return to ...

This production of La Traviata from Busseto made me want to visit its Teatro Verdi because it is everything that an opera house should be. It seems to be about the size of your local village scout hut ...

Now on its third revival, Rodula Gaitanou's heart-stopping version of Verdi's tragic La Traviata is as affecting as ever. Opening with consumptive courtesan Violetta gasping for air, it never lets up ...

The final production of the San Diego Opera 2024-2025 season is Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata; it opens on Friday, April 25, at The San Diego Civic Theatre. Traviata is a poignant exploration of love, ...

Mozart's Band. E16 (Part 4) - La Traviata in Peril: Talented as they are as musicians, the Mozart Band are walking disasters in kitchen. Only Beethoven would think of serving a strawberry jam pizza on ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s production includes a lot of real food, even Oreos and bagels. And it’s Rex Marquez’s job to get it all on a shopping spree. By Adam Nagourney and Vincent Tullo Durante toda ...

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, ...

The film and opera director Franco Zeffirelli (1923-2019) was not the first to bring a lyrical work to the big screen: this premiere is attributed to Max Ophuls with The Sold Bride (1932), based on ...

Anna Netrebko is set to perform Verdi’s “La Traviata” on Sept. 6, 2023 in a concert performance. The performance will mark the first time Netrebko sings the iconic opera in Austria since 2009. It also ...