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Tag Archives: Atalla Ayan
Tears before bedtime: El-Khoury transcends Cairns’ chilly Glyndebourne Traviata
Verdi: La traviata **** Glyndebourne, 1st August 2017 Glyndebourne’s production of operatic weepy La traviata left me dry-eyed when I saw it on tour back in 2014. I found the abstract setting cold and austere, the performances bland. Thankfully, I employed a caveat … Continue reading
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Tagged Atalla Ayan, Daniel Shelvey, Dimitri Platanias, Eliza Safjan, Gabriele Mangione, Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne Chorus, Henry Waddington, Hildegard Bechtler, Joyce El-Khoury, La traviata, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rihab Chaieb, Stefan Soltesz, Tom Cairns, Verdi, William Dazeley
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Ekaterina Bakanova a touchingly fragile Violetta in Covent Garden Traviata
Verdi: La traviata *** The Royal Opera, 14th June 2017 Kasper Holten was right. The affable former Director of Opera always defended yet another run of Verdi’s La traviata at Covent Garden by arguing that for every regular operagoer jaded by seeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Simkin, Atalla Ayan, Ekaterina Bakanova, Gyula Nagy, Jeremy White, La traviata, Maurizio Benini, Richard Eyre, Royal Opera, Samuel Sakker, Sarah Pring, Verdi
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