Nadine Sierra as Violetta and Stephen Costello as Alfredo in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Marty Sohl/The Metropolitan Opera Michael Mayer’s 2018 fairy-tale production of La Traviata starts as a ghost story.

Ansel Elgort is one handsome fella. The 27-year-old American actor and singer has swooned fans thanks to his roles in films like The Fault in Our Stars, Divergent, and Baby Driver. Ansel’s latest ...

I interviewed Diana Damrau when she had just done her first Violetta, her role debut in the Met's old Willy Decker production (you know, "The One About The Clock," as it might have been called, ...

The series is a ‘telenovela’ – a TV format popular in Latin America similar to a soap opera – where Violetta falls in love, discovers her passion for music and grows up onscreen. Watched by 6- to ...