La Traviata

2008-09 at the Met




The 125th season at the Met will open on Sept.22, 2008 with a gala performance from Renée Fleming (extracts from Massenet's Manon, La Traviata and Strauss' Capriccio) and will feature 6 new productions (including the Met premiere of John Adams' Doctor Atomic).

Amongst the new productions, Berlioz's La damnation de Faust is an interesting attempt to make this opera available to everyone. The choice of Robert Lepage as director, though, is less than ideal, as is the choice of Marcello Giordani as Faust.


Massenet's Thaïs should be a great opportunity for Renée Fleming to shine.

Another new production will be Puccini's La Rondine, by future Paris Opera director Nicolas Joël, with Duane Schuler as lightning designer (a very recurrent artist here in Lyon). Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna are supposed to share the stage. I hope Peter Gelb has already thought of alternative names for when they cancel (say, three days before the premiere).

David McVicar's new production of Il Trovatore should have New Yorkers all excited, although the cast seems a little weak (except for Dmitri Hvorostovsky of course).

Finally, last but not least, a new production of Bellini's La Sonnambula will feature the well-known couple Natalie Dessay/Evelino Pidó (who performed this piece in Lyon in Nov.2006, my reviews in French here...

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All-Korean ‘La Traviata’ woos Italian opera fans
중앙데일리, South Korea - Dec 28, 2008
By Kim Ho-joung JoongAng Ilbo [hkim@joongang.co.kr] Seoul Metropolitan Opera performed “La Traviata” at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste,

Seattle Opera season: 3 by Verdi and a world premiere
Seattle Times, United States - Jan 2, 2009
Some Seattle Opera favorites will star in the Verdi works, including Nuccia Focile in "La Traviata" and Lisa Daltirus in "Il Trovatore.
The rest of Seattle Opera's season is announced Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Tribute to Verdi’s La Traviata
New Straits Times, Malaysia - Dec 21, 2008
The Emozioni in Musica, for example, is a limited collection that features Invito a La Traviata, a pen based on one of the most staged operas in the world.


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The Sound of Silence
Opera News, NY - Jan 2, 2009
La Traviata marked the first collaboration between the director, Frank Corsaro, and the soprano singing Violetta, Patricia Brooks.

'La Traviata' opera in film
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - Dec 17, 2008
A: That's Verdi's La Traviata, which involves a dying prostitute falling in love. (You can see why it was appropriate for Pretty Woman, where Julia Roberts

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