Teatro Real in Madrid is presenting a socially distanced "La traviata." In the final scene of Verdi's "La traviata," Alfredo returns to his beloved Violetta, who is dying, with a wracking cough.

In the world of theater, Shakespeare’s Macbeth swirls with superstition. If one is performing it, you may not say the title out loud, especially backstage. You must call it, “The Scottish Play.” Why ...

“ ‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles Opera is almost back. Not that it has gone anywhere. But after having been one of the country’s most progressive companies last decade, it had to put much of its imagination on hold in its ...

“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 ...

Season 13 of Great Performances at the Met comes to primetime with Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata, premiering nationwide Friday, April 5 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Conducted by new ...

Terrence McNally's travails on the British stage look unlikely to be eased entirely by London's first "Lisbon Traviata." The Off Broadway hit has taken 18 years, and a bewildering array of accents and ...

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 ...