New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
If part of the aim of free concerts is to lure new listeners, the New York Grand Opera Company’s performance on Wednesday surely won a few new devotees.
Duncan's TV Ad Land (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
MySupermarket.co.uk invited British shoppers to enter an online competition using a viral video playing with the genre of foreplay in the kitchen. A couple are inspired by the music of Verdi’s La Traviata (The Drinking Song) as they play with baked beans, paste, Marmite and sausage. “What you do with your groceries is your business. [...]
Anna Netrebko (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Here they are two nice videoclips recorded from Russian TV channel Kultura and which have been uploaded to Youtube by Yeongiwon. Those uploads are acknowledge. The first one shows Anna Netrebko o n rehearsal for a performance of Verdi' s La Traviata at the Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg on 28. Nov 2007. Anna Netrebko sings Violetta Valery, Dmitry Voropaev sings Alfredo Germont, being his role debut...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
La Scala's cross to bear this season comes in the form of the popular Verdi opera, La Traviata, and it just goes from bad to worse. Unbelievable fallout continues to spin-off from the January 2008 cancellation of the highly-anticipated Terry...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The New National Theatre Tokyo is currently staging the opera "La Traviata" for the first time in four years. Renowned Japanese conductor Toshiyuki Kamioka, making his first-ever appearance at the NNT, will lead a cast peppered with world-famous singers. This work by Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi is set in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century. The audience will find themselves entranced by...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Marguerite is a strange new musical to find in the West End at the moment, a glossily produced update of La dame aux camellias by Alexandre Dumas and its Verdi version, La traviata, set among the collaborators in Occupied France with more than a touc...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Verdi's "La Traviata," which closes Michigan Opera Theatre's season, is bulletproof. The characters are so appealing, the music so touching and the structure so sturdy that only monumental incompetence can destroy it on stage.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Like "La Boheme," "Carmen" and a few other standard repertoire evergreens, Verdi's "La Traviata," which closes Michigan Opera Theatre's spring season, remains essentially unkillable in the opera house. The characters are so appealing, the music so beautifully touching and glorious and the musical and dramatic structures so ingeniously constructed that competence is easy to achieve.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
After exploring two rarities this spring -- Puccini's "La Rondine" and Bellini's "La Sonnambula"-- Michigan Opera Theatre winds up its season with a beloved evergreen, Verdi's "La Traviata."
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
By Erin Chan Ding, Detroit Free Press May 1--BravoBravo! parties it up at the Michigan Opera Theatre on Friday between performance dates for Giacomo Puccini's "La Rondine" and Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata." That's kind of like blasting Nirvana during a concert of works by J.S.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
TONIGHT Students from the University of Redlands School of Music and from Crafton Hills College present a full production of Verdi's opera "La Traviata," 8 p.m. at Crafton Hills College's Finkelstein Performing Arts Center. Continues at 8 p.m. April 4 and 5 and at 2 p.m. April 6.
Sixshot.com Urban (Free subscription) | 19/03/2008
Outkast's Big Boi has teamed up The Atlanta Ballet for performance called Big which will debut next month. The show will fuse new and unreleased music from Big Boi with Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata . Sleepy Brown, Scar, Khujo and Janelle Monae are also slated to appear in the show that will run from April 10-13 at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. For tickets and more information, visit www.atlantaballet.com...
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
BY GEORGE LOOMIS [NY Sun, 17 March 2008] Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday is five years away, but it looks as though the baritone Thomas Hampson is celebrating early. His operatic docket this season includes Verdi operas exclusively — "Macbeth" in San Francisco, "Don Carlo" in Vienna, "La Traviata" in Chicago and Zurich. And he makes his debut as Don Carlo in "Ernani" tonight when the hot-blooded Romantic...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
You haven't lived until you've heard a poodle belt out Earth, Wind & Fire's ''Shining Star'' or a Chihuahua perform part of Giuseppe Verdi's ''La Traviata.''
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
THE redoubtable Ellen Kent, practised in pleasing the crowds, takes on Verdi’s romantic tragedy as producer, director and designer.
