Fall 2020:
Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, dramatic video, remotely recorded

We will go on creating beauty safely

From our homes to your home: Opera in Williamsburg created a new dramatic video of Gluck’s masterpiece Orfeo ed Euridice, with superb world-class singers and with our Virginia instrumentalists, led by Maestro Jorge Parodi, each recording safely at their own places. Orfeo: Nicholas Tamagna. Euridice: Kearstin Piper-Brown. Amor: Laura Leon.
The opera is open for preview since December 15, 2020.

We will return to live performing in Williamsburg Virginia as soon as conditions allow. The safety of our audience and artists is paramount. We are performing Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci outdoors on the West porch of the Williamsburg Community Building at 401 North Boundary Street on June 4 and 6, 2021 — tickets are available, see the link above. We hope very much to perform L’Elisir d’Amore and La Boheme when we can get dates at the theater later in the year. Any live performing will also be live-streamed to patrons who prefer to stay at home. In the meantime, let’s keep in touch from our homes to yours.

More Recent free zoom events:

On Sunday August 9, 2020 we had on Zoom a meeting with Meghan Picerno, Opera in Williamsburg’s amazing Gilda from Rigoletto in October 2016. Meghan went on to a major Broadway career. From 2017 to 2020 Meghan was Christine Daae in the USA premiere and first USA tour of Love Never Dies, then Christine in the world tour of Phantom of the Opera, then Christine in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, as well as starring in other roles in major Opera and Musical Theatre venues around the world. Also in the meeting: Maestro Jorge Parodi, stage director Isabel Milenski, and costume designer Eric Lamp. With the Williamsburg Regional Library. A link to the recording of the talk is below:

Creating Opera in Williamsburg’s La Traviata (September 2018), with the Williamsburg Regional Library, took place on Sunday July 19, with music director Maestro Jorge Parodi, stage director Fabrizio Melano, costume designer Eric Lamp, producer Naama Zahavi-Ely, and cast members Suchan Kim (Barone), Kirsten Scott (Flora), and Eric Lindsey (Dottore), with cameo appearance from Korea by Haeran Hong (Violetta) and Won Whi Choi (Alfredo). Links to the recording of the conversation are below:

Stay tuned for more! The text and some recordings of some past presentations are available in the blog below:

Blog of previous presentations by topic — please click on the links below:

Other news:

Thank you for your support at Opera in Williamsburg fund-raising online auction April 13-30, and thank you to the patrons who donated their tickets!

The Metropolitan Opera is broadcasting a different free opera every day; each is available for 24 hours.  All have English subtitles.  This is an excellent time to explore!

See video clips from our last opera, The Pearl Fishers, from September 2019 — please double-click for full screen display:

A comprehensive listing of opera-related broadcasts and on-line material from many companies in the USA and in Europe is available at https://operaamerica.org/applications/schedule/index.aspx.   

Nothing compares to an excellent live performance seen live, and we hope to bring it to you all again when possible.  Any support to Opera in Williamsburg and to our artists will be very welcome indeed. To donate, please use the “donate” link on the bottom of this page.

Thank you so much, and we wish everybody good health and safety!