Verdi: La Traviata

Sierra’s Violetta gives Livermore’s production a heart...there’s ravishing soft singing when Leo Nucci’s Giorgio Germont persuades her to relinquish his son (however noble a presence, Nucci is,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Oct 2022
Catalogue No: 57955
Label: Dynamic

Verdi: La Traviata

Nadine Sierra (soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Leo Nucci (baritone), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera company)
Zubin Mehta

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Giuseppe Verdi was well on the way towards renown and prosperity when he took up the story of Violetta, a famed courtesan whose intensely romantic and colourful but tragically brief life marked the emergence of realism into Italian opera. Verdi and Alexandre Dumas fils intended this melodrama to have a contemporary setting, and David Livermore’s stunning production maintains this wish by placing his elegant and powerful cast firmly into the 20th century. This alchemy of masterful acting, vivid bel canto voices and the vitality of Zubin Mehta’s conducting results in a triumphant and unforgettably poignant operatic experience.

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January 2023

Sierra’s Violetta gives Livermore’s production a heart...there’s ravishing soft singing when Leo Nucci’s Giorgio Germont persuades her to relinquish his son (however noble a presence, Nucci is, alas, over the meridian vocally); and finally an ‘Addio, del passato’ that would make the Parisian cobblestones weep.

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