Soprano Cristina Nassif is a 20-something native of the Maryland suburbs. The daughter of an opera singer mother and a pianist father, Nassif received a music degree at the University of Maryland and got her start on the stage in the Virginia Opera Young Artist Program. Last season, she triumphed with Virginia Opera as Violetta in La Traviata, which brought her to the attention of the hungry eye of Plácido Domingo, ever watchful for…

Washington National Opera has two more operas scheduled for this season, and DCist went to the prima of the first of them Saturday night, Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. Michael Hampe’s handsome production, created for the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile, places characters in 18th-century Napoleonic costumes (designed by Germán Droghetti) — Tito’s imperial robes in the final scene appear to be derived from Ingres’s coronation portrait of Napoleon I — in sets clearly…