Local opera company breaks new ground with Fat Pig

Phoning in the overture: When Victory Hall Opera’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata was canceled, the cast turned to...

Tale spin: Miriam Gordon-Stewart and Victory Hall Opera take on Hadyn’s 1784 opera Armida with a fresh perspective....

The word “opera” sometimes comes with some preconceived notions attached. It might bring to mind complex stories...

As Charlottesville’s character has broadened, so has its classical music scene, which is now largely driven by...

The story of “Hansel and Gretel” is a familiar one: the hungry children of a poor woodcutter are lost in the woods...

Imagine the thousands of hands that have held the spine of a library book, the fingers that have turned the pages....

I’ll be honest: I’m not really an opera person. Until this weekend, I assumed opera consisted of people in fancy...

A mysterious woman named Iz arrives at a sanatorium-cum-medical spa, completely mute. She’s brought in by her husband...

At Juilliard, up-and-coming opera singers learn the art of method acting: channeling their personal experience into...