Carmen: a woman ablaze with passion, surrounded by men possessed by obsession and jealousy. One of opera’s most well-known characters sets herself on a road to tragedy when she meets Don José, a ...

Not all the directorial decisions work equally well, but we’ll get to one of those later. Bizet’s score has been trimmed slightly and we don’t get all the dialogue, but the cuts mean that the evening ...

Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska’s Micaëla (pictured below) deserves better – as nuanced a delivery as Akhmetshina’s, promising great things for the Puccini roles. The Act Three scene where she spots ...

Celebrating Virginia Opera’s 50th season, and back in the repertoire after a 10-year absence, behold opera’s feistiest, most fickle, most fearless and most freedom-loving proto-feminist heroine. She’s ...