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The final opera of the 2020 Winter Opera Festival is a new production of La Wally (pronounced "lah vahLEE") by Alfredo Catalani, a work not seen in the U.S. for more than 30 years. In a village in the ...

To lovers of opera, the names of Puccini and Verdi are up there in shining lights. The pity is that Alfredo Catalani is never the one that springs first to mind. More would have been heard of him for ...

‘La Wally’: By Alfredo Catalani, libretto by Luigi Illica. Conducted by Victor DeRenzi, directed by Stephanie Sundine. Opens 7:30 p.m. Saturday through March 22, Sarasota Opera, 61 N. Pineapple Ave., ...

‘La Wally’: By Alfredo Catalani. Conducted by Victor DeRenzi. Directed by Stephanie Sundine. Reviewed March 7, Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota. Through March 22. 941-328-1300; ...

All over the world, year in year out, opera houses put on a handful of operas from the standard repertory. For 70 years, however, Wexford Festival Opera has bucked that trend and the unlikely setting ...

George Hall writes widely on opera and has contributed regularly to The Stage since 2000. He has also contributed to such publications as T ...full bio The Irish opera festival returns with Alfredo ...

Alfredo Catalani’s rarely performed opera “La Wally” (1892) ends with an avalanche killing the hero and the distraught heroine flinging herself into a snowy abyss. It’s the sort of thing that drives ...

There was a sense of the solemnity of a pilgrimage rather than the giddy excitement of a gala as Wexford Festival re-opened its doors to audiences last night with a fully staged production of Edmea ...