Librettist Claudia Stevens will give a free lecture for ticket holders and Virginia Festival of the Book participants before Charlottesville Opera's March 23performance of Middlemarch in Spring. She ...

Amy’s mode was the seminar, with the entire school quarter devoted to one book, a big one like War and Peace, The Odyssey, Moby Dick, or Middlemarch. In a lecture on George Eliot entitled “Sympathy, ...

Ash Lawn Opera, Charlottesville, Virginia's premier opera company for 40 years, will become Charlottesville Opera in 2017. Imagine 1978: the downtown mall had just opened in Charlottesville and Ash ...

Literary fads come and go, but certain books never lose their hold on the popular and scholarly imagination. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to explore these four novels with such an ...