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.”