Three faces of Violetta Three faces of Violetta

Christopher Corwin surveys the three Traviata casts — led by Lisette Oropesa, Rosa Feola, and Ermonela Jaho — at the Met this spring.

Not an asset to the abbey Not an asset to the abbey

Francesco Filidei’s new opera The Name of the Rose struggles to bridge the past and the present in Milan

The sweet escape? The sweet escape?

A plodding La bohème in San Francisco never quite takes off