Verdi: La Traviata

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A lavish production of Verdi's tragic masterpiece directed by Marta Domingo with James Conlon conducting the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Features the performances of two of opera's biggest stars, Renée Fleming and Rolando Villazón.

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins the ranks of the elite handful of sopranos whose vocal and acting talents make their portrayals memorable. Her Violetta Valéry is a vulnerable figure torn between self-indulgence and love, sacrificing personal happiness to become a victim of the social mores of mid-19th-century bourgeois France. Fleming's acting captures the complexity of the character and her vocalism is flawless. She negotiates the wild coloratura of Act One with aplomb, and is stunning in the lyric passages that pervade the opera, and touching in her scenes with her lover, Alfredo, and his father. Her singing is free of the mannerisms that have sometimes crept into her work and at the same time she brings countless personal touches to the role, phrasing and verbal emphases that shed fresh light on the character. Fleming is a great Violetta, and this DVD proves it.

Dan Davis

DVD Info

Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Decca
DVD Release Date: October 30, 2007
Run Time: 144 minutes