Advantages: The drinking song, the melancholy oboes Disadvantages: Long - approx 2 hrs
La Traviata
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave
Conductor: Sir Georg Solti
Orchestra: Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra
Performer: Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano): Violetta
Frank Lopardo (Tenor): Alfredo
Leo Nucci (Baritone): Gioggio Germont
Covent Garden Royal Opera House Chorus
Label: Decca
Released: July 1, 1995
Price: £25.99
Availability: At must good music shops
Giuseppe Verdi was born on October 1813 ...
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Advantages: Superb singing Disadvantages: Hard to find
When Verdi's immortal opera La Traviata premiered in March 1853 at the Fenice, Venice, it proved a disaster. Verdi was philosophical about the outcome. "Was it the singers' fault, or mine"? he wrote to his friend Emanuele Muzio.
Perhaps there was good reason for the audience to pan the performance. Firstly, they objected to the modern costuming - the play on which the opera was based took place some 150 years earlier - but the costumes were contemporary. ...
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