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 ...

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’ 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 ...

Sometime in the fall of 1852, the composer Giuseppe Verdi decided that his next opera would be based on Alexandre Sometime in the fall of 1852, the composer Giuseppe Verdi decided that his next opera ...

“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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Dave Itzkoff “I do not know whose fault it was,” Verdi wrote after the first performances of “La Traviata” were panned in 1853. “It is best not to ...