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When the musical Ragtime was produced for Broadway in 1998 it was a colossal, big-budget show. It cost some ten million dollars. What in the world were the folks at tiny little Union Avenue Opera thinking when they decided to include this show in their twenty-ninth season? Ragtime, the musical treatment of E. L. Doctorow’s vast rambling nostalgic, wonderfully American novel, is far removed from opera.
Virginia Opera provides a sizzling and comical "Marriage of Figaro." The opera plays at the Harrison Opera House March 25 through 27 and in Richmond the first weekend in April.
Virginia Opera partners with The Virginia Arts Festival to debut Leonard Bernstein’s "Trouble in Tahiti," Friday, May 7 and Saturday, May 8 at the Bank Street Stage in Norfolk. The jazzy, one-act opera is set in 1950s suburbia and follows a young married couple struggling to prioritize their relationship among life's daily demands.