Sandy Hausman reports
Victory Hall Opera singers recorded themselves for a documentary about how the pandemic has changed their lives.
Credit Victory Hall Opera
Charlottesville’s Victory Hall Opera was planning a production of La Traviata when the pandemic hit. It was a small irony since that 19th century Italian opera tells the tale of a young woman fighting a deadly disease.
Artistic Director Miriam Gordon-Stewart says the company had hired a distinguished, 74-year-old conductor from The Met.
“Joel Revson was originally scheduled to conduct our Traviata production, she recalls. He contracted COVID and after a very long struggle passed away.”