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La Traviata.(Metropolitan Opera)
Broadcast of March 6, 2004: sponsored by ChevronTexaco over the ChevronTexaco metropolitan opera international radio network, 1:30 p.m.
THE STORY
ACT I. In her Paris salon, the courtesan Violetta Valery welcomes her guests, among them Flora Bervoix, Marquis d'Obigny, Baron Douphol and Gastone, who introduces a new admirer, Alfredo Germont. The latter, confessing that he has adored Violetta from afar, offers a toast at her request (brindisi: "Libiamo"); she joins him in the salute to pleasure. As her guests move into the ballroom, Violetta, suddenly feeling taint, remains behind. Alfredo returns, concerned about her, and ardently declares his love ("Un di ...
- San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Richard Scheinin column: Led by a vital...
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) February 13, 2007 700+ words
...tenor Isaac Hurtado, as Violetta's callow lover Alfredo, were at once delicate...rotating casts. The roles of Violetta and Alfredo in the other cast, which...Into her world steps Alfredo, smitten with Violetta, who finds herself falling...
- Dessay takes on Verdi's Violetta for 1st time
- News wire article from: AP Online July 6, 2009 700+ words
...arms of her lover, Alfredo, wrapping her legs...her mid-40s, Violetta is a role she probably...Giorgio Germont, Alfredo's father, who persuades Violetta to renounce her...the opera, he has Alfredo watch Violetta's funeral procession...
- Labelle's Violetta elevates 'La Traviata'.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Pfeifer, Ellen November 13, 1998 700+ words
...efficient. So, for example, the Alfredo of Rafael Rojas was not deeply...obliviousness in confrontations with Violetta and Alfredo. At the heart of the production...gave it stature, was Labelle's Violetta. This extraordinarily challenging...
- A FRESH-FACED VIOLETTA LAUREN FLANIGAN LIKES TO RETHINK `LA TRAVIATA' ROLE EACH...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. July 20, 1996 700+ words
...opera. ``I've been doing Violetta since 1988,'' Flanigan said...musically. ``Essentially, I see Violetta as less tortured than some...over, making jokes, playing Alfredo against the Baron. This is Violetta decaying from the inside...
- The Mag Review: VIOLETTA A STAR ON PARTY SCENE; La Traviata and Katya Kabanova,...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) June 27, 2004 700+ words
...trollop. It was a cunning idea. Violetta's lifestyle matched reckless...Verdi's libretto. Happily Violetta's complexities were so superbly...sacrificing nobility from Violetta. Peter Wedd's Alfredo proved a perfect partner as...
- Violetta
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Violetta. Violetta Valéry (sop), lover of Alfredo Germont, and the eponymous ‘strayed woman’, in Verdi's La traviata .
- OPERA: Not such a shrinking Violetta OPERA: La Traviata / Magic Flute Berlin
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Della Couling December 31, 1994 700+ words
...Alfredo". Kupfer has cut Alfredo's second aria...other productions. Violetta is back alone in that...not Annina at all. Alfredo's return, and his...back again: we see Alfredo mirrored many times...enters the tunnel where Violetta is lying. In a magnificent...
- Soprano blossoms as Violetta in Verdi impressive `Traviata'.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Medrek, T.J. June 3, 2003 700+ words
...of the singer cast as Violetta. She's the Parisian...man from the country, Alfredo, until his father...is not just a great Violetta in the making, she...voiced performance as Alfredo's father, Germont...Marcie Ley was a fine Violetta in Chorus pro Musica...