La Traviata
   

Verdi's La Traviata

La Traviata


by Giuseppe Verdi


La Traviata: Vocal Score, in Italian and English: (Sheet Music)
Barnes & Noble

La Traviata Piano Vocal Score, University of Chicago Press, amazon.co.uk

La Traviata: Melodramma in Three Acts, Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave (2 Volume Set): (Sheet Music)
Barnes & Noble

La Traviata libretto Italian-English, Barnes & Noble.com.

La Traviata libretto Italian-English, publisher G. Schirmer, amazon.co.uk


Welsh National Opera--New Production
LA TRAVIATA Verdi
12, 14, 18 and 29 September 1 and 3 October 2009 at 7.15pm

Director David McVicar makes his WNO debut with a finely crafted and beautifully staged production of Verdi’s opera. Young Greek soprano Myrto Papatanasiu makes her UK debut as Violetta with popular British tenor Alfie Boe making his WNO debut as Alfredo.

Violetta Myrto Papatanasiu
Alfredo Alfie Boe
Giorgio Germont Dario Solari
Baron Douphol Eddie Wade
Flora Louise Poole
Annina Joanne Thomas
Doctor Grenvil David Soar

Conductor Andrea Licata
Director David McVicar
Designer Tanya McCallin
Lighting Designer Jennifer Tipton
Choreographer Andrew George

Co-production with Scottish Opera and Gran Teatre del Liceu
Sung in Italian with English and Welsh surtitles


Alan Rich, writing on October 22, 2001, for Variety, gave a negative review to a performance by the Los Angeles Opera. A review in the Los Angeles Times was more favorable.

A review of a performance of Verdi's La Traviata in Dublin can be found at the Financial Times site, the review of October 9, 2001, having been written by John Allen for the Irish Times.

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Mark Pappenheim's article "The A-to-Z of La Traviata"

Suggested Recordings


 

La Traviata--Maria Callas, Francesco Albanese, and Ugo Savarese, Turin RAI Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Gabriele Santini, Warner Fonit Cetra, amazon.co.uk

Verdi - TRAVIATA (Naxos 8110300-01) Naxos remastering of the 1954 Cetra studio recording with Maria Callas, Francesco Albanese, Ugo Savarese, Turin RAI Orchestra conducted by Gabriele Santini. At amazon.co.uk.

La Traviata, Sutherland, Pavarotti, Bonynge, amazon.co.uk

La Traviata--Victoria de los Angeles, Carlo del Monte, Mario Sereni, conducted by Tullio Serafin, amazon.co.uk

Verdi: La Traviata / Karajan, Moffo, Cioni, Sereni, Opera d'Oro, arkivmusic.com


La Traviata on DVD



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