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Tag Archives: La traviata
Aleksandra Kurzak impresses in latest Covent Garden Traviata revival
Verdi: La traviata Royal Opera, 14th March 2020 Despite Violetta’s fragile health, Covent Garden Traviatas are made of sturdy stuff. Luchino Visconti’s 1967 production lasted nearly thirty years and Richard Eyre’s successor clocked up its 25th anniversary just before Christmas. … Continue reading
Ermonela Jaho makes a haunting return to Covent Garden’s Traviata
Verdi: La traviata **** Royal Opera, 14th January 2019 One of the great jump-ins at Covent Garden happened almost eleven years ago to the day. Imagine the general disappointment, the wailing and gnashing of teeth when an indisposed Anna Netrebko … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonello Manacorda, Charles Castronovo, Ermonela Jaho, Igor Golovatenko, La traviata, Royal Opera, Verdi
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McVicar’s Traviata is still darkly impressive
Verdi: La traviata *** Welsh National Opera, Southampton, 23rd November 2018 “I loathe Traviata!” declared David McVicar back in 2003, ahead of his stage production of Camille at the Lyric, Hammersmith. “I could never do such a coarse, clumsy reduction of this woman.” Perhaps this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anush Hovhannisyan, David McVicar, James Southall, Kang Wang, La traviata, Roland Wood, Verdi, Welsh National Opera
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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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