It highlights how drastically COVID-19 could continue to impact the performing arts well beyond the potential (limited) reopening dates local governments are discussing.

After five months, 138 costumes, and 37 wigs, “La traviata” is ready for the stage.

Inspired by one of Spain’s greatest painters.

You can see a traditional performance of what many consider the first-ever opera.

Plácido Domingo is taking leave of Washington National Opera in a grand way this month, both on the stage as Oreste in a riveting production of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride and at the podium.

The Washington National Opera is going to make it through the financial crisis, thanks to being absorbed into the Kennedy Center. It has meant some sacrifices, not least of which is some less adventurous programming this season and next. Such is the company’s latest production of Puccini’s gorgeous but overdone Madama Butterfly, the most often produced opera in North America, according to Opera America.

Washington National Opera’s new production of Salome shows that Richard Strauss’s 1905 shocker can still pack a wallop.

The news spread quickly last night: after much speculation about Plácido Domingo’s future with Washington National Opera, the legendary tenor announced he would retire as the company’s artistic director at the end of his current contract in June 2011.

Padrevia logo. Among the sometimes wacky performances of the Capital Fringe Festival are some unexpected offerings of the more mainstream variety, with a twist. An adventurous little company called Opera Alterna, which presented two new operas by local composers at last year’s festival, returns with an earnest production of Thomas Pasatieri’s 1967 melodrama Padrevia. The company is making the revival of Pasatieri’s concise, neo-Romantic operas a specialty, after presenting two of them at the…

Photo by Hitchcock Creative The Washington National Opera announced late Monday that it is making significant cuts for the coming season, both in terms of staff and the number of productions it will present. The 2010-11 season will include only five operas, continuing the downward trend from six this season and seven in 2008-09. The company said it is also eliminating eight staff positions, instituting salary freezes, suspending retirement fund contributions, and implementing a…