by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2019 | Music, Music News, Musical Theater
By Michael Curry Three of Broadway’s — and American Musical Theatre’s — most adored and enduring stars are coming to Coastal Virginia. Look up American Musical Theatre or Great American Song Book and you will be sure to find the names Rob Fisher, Michael...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A woefully obscure bit of American history, a shameful episode from an era that also produced some of our country’s greatest glories, takes life on the Harrison Opera House stage this April as part of Virginia Opera’s Variations Series. An...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 13, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montage Gammon III Virginia Opera closes its current season with Giacomo Puccini’s great heartbreaker, Madama Butterfly. Arguably one of the two great tear jerkers in the operatic repertoire – Puccini’s La Boheme being the other – it’s also one of the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 7, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A sparkling romantic comedy fueled by that dangerously explosive mix of glittering gold and fermented grape, Donizetti’s Elixir of Love comes to the Virginia Opera under the guidance of stage director Kyle Lang, whose VO productions of La Boheme...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III One of Western literature’s earliest anti-heroes, Don Giovanni, a.k.a. Don Juan, returns to the Virginia Opera in Mozart’s 1787 Don Giovanni, at a time when his stereotypical persona is being viewed most attentively, in ways that are very...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Opening with a multi-genre Tony Award winner by a great 20th Century American composer, and closing with a great operatic tearjerker, Virginia Opera’s 44th Season includes a “rom-com” by Gaetano Donizetti, Mozart’s look at the romantic conquests...
