The music of 'Catone in Utica' conquers the night

Opera Lafayette presented one of the highlights of the Washington musical season so far at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night. Since its founding here in 1995, by conductor and violinist Ryan Brown, Opera Lafayette has not only taken root but flourished in Washington's not always welcoming cultural climate. In a departure from the company's widely admired explorations of unusual French repertory, they dived headlong Saturday into Venetian opera with "Catone in Utica," Antonio Vivaldi's 1737 se...