La Traviata

Overview

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.

Cast

Renée Fleming

Violetta Valéry

Rolando Villazón

Alfredo Germont

Renato Bruson

Giorgio Germont

S

Suzanna Guzmán

Flora Bervoix

A

Anna Alkhimova

Annina

James Conlon

Conductor

M

Michael Geiger

Chorus - Basses

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