Performing “Vanessa” is just what the Boston Symphony should be doing. But its concert staging came off as drab and ...

Samuel Barber’s Vanessa showcases an alternative: the opera, with its libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, presents a study of ...

The introduction of American composer Samuel Barber’s riveting first opera, “Vanessa,” was marked by uncommon splendor: It had its premiere by the venerable Metropolitan Opera in January 1958, won a ...

The opera of this year’s Spoleto Festival USA is Vanessa, an existential drama that follows its titular character through a harrowing journey of love, longing and loss. It’s historically important to ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Joshua Jeremiah leaned in, as if to share a secret. “I’m the troublemaker,” the topknotted baritone told me, eyes flashing. It wasn’t a secret at all. Already he’d hopped up to ...