Those of you Faithful readers who follow Virginia Opera will doubtless be aware that our production of Verdi's Aida has been postponed d...

Many opera lovers who adore the operas of Verdi may be unaware of the extent of his political activism. For example, he was an ardent suppor...

The melodies in Verdi's Aida  were not constructed by their composer merely for abstract musical pleasure alone; they provide insights i...

Faithful readers will recall that I was flabbergasted by the astonishing way in which current events in Chile dovetailed with Virginia Opera...

Rossini’s La Cenerentola is an opera that might never have been written without the involvement of local police.  The year 1816 saw R...

Listen, my idea of "reality TV" is watching a baseball game on cable, okay? I'm not a fan of much of the genre, and that goes ...

As I mentioned in last week's post, I was cast as Don Magnifico in a 1997 production of Rossini's La  Cenerentola  by Virginia Commo...