Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
(Above: McVicar's Traviata, Carmen Giannattasio's Violetta - Credit Drew Farrell)You can't stop the secksinesx & powah of David McVicar's new "Traviata"! Last week, the Scottish Opera was treated to their first new production of Traviata in twenty years: in a...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
"'I could never do such a coarse, clumsy, reduction of this woman' [he said in 2003]. Five years later, though, the curtain is about to rise on McVicar's new production with Scottish Opera, his first outing with one of opera's favourite classics. Has he changed his mind? Or changed La Traviata?"...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Asking Opera Chic to choose between David McVicar and Robert Carsen is as unfair as asking her to choose between Jeter and A-Rod (even if Alex's latest choice of companions is tipping way too heavily on the giant-piece-of-ho-bag side of...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Time must have tempered David McVicar's hatred of La traviata. In 2003, besotted by the foul-mouthed, wise-cracking, piano-thumping heroine of his Lyric Hammersmith production of Camille, the play by Dumas fils, he said that he "could never do such a coarse, clumsy reduction of this woman". But his seductive, decadent, hypersensual Scottish Opera production is the work of a director...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Set on a vast slab etched with the words "Violetta Valéry", there is no mistaking the doom-laden atmosphere of David McVicar's handsome new production for Scottish Opera. As they enjoy the high life, the party guests are dancing on the grave of La Traviata herself. The company, having come perilously close to dying, is clearly enjoying its most ambitious shout for some time and this...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... could question the wisdom of scheduling a new production of Verdi's La traviata, directed by David McVicar, a Glasgow boy made good on the international scene.McVicar has done a beautiful job of it, too: this is, I think, one of the best things he's ever done. Tanya McCallin's elegantly sumptuous designs edge the opera's epoch forward into the world of Maupassant and Sargent,...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
THE spectre of death looms large, but subtly, over David McVicar's new deep-veined production of Verdi's La Traviata for Scottish opera. The heavy, luscious black drapes of Tanya McCallin's designs cast deliciously ambivalent tones of opulence and gravitas. The prevailing presence of Violetta's tombstone epitaph, etched large across the marble floor, combined with sensually-charged characters...
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Lyric Opera of Chicago started up its 2008/2009 season in style with director David McVicar's production of Manon , headed by two of opera's most sought-after and explosive stars: Natalie Dessay and Jonas Kaufman.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
'I LOATHE Traviata!" David McVicar declared in 2003. "I could never do such a coarse, clumsy, reduction of this woman." Five years later, though, the curtain
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
'I LOATHE Traviata!" David McVicar declared in 2003. "I could never do such a coarse, clumsy, reduction of this woman." Five years later, though, the curtain
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
'I LOATHE Traviata!" David McVicar declared in 2003. "I could never do such a coarse, clumsy, reduction of this woman." Five years later, though, the curtain
Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... despite really solid performances from both, I wasn’t completely sold. I think much of it was the David McVicar production, a large open area surrounded by a slanting semi-circular gallery where period costumed revelers alternately watch and participate in the action in a sort of meta-performance way. McVicar does depravity with a twist of S&M better than anyone else these...
The Stage (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Glyndebourne Theatre: The second of Glyndebourne's three touring autumn productions, David McVicar's Carmen (revived by Lee Blakeley) runs high on the smoulder factor. Act I's cramped, run-down urban setting, with its rusting fences and crumbling buildings, is no sunny picture-postcard of Seville, but it does present a suitably gritty backdrop for the basic instincts shared by the cigarette...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
The Secret Marriage will be performed on Saturday, November 22, Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 at 7.15pm. And David McVicar returns to Scottish Opera to direct his first production of La Traviata on Wednesday, November 19, Thursday 27, Saturday 29 at 7.15pm, and Sunday 23 at 4pm.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... Marriage will be performed on Saturday, November 22, Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 at 7.15pm. And David McVicar returns to Scottish Opera to direct his first production of La Traviata on Wednesday, November 19, Thursday 27, Saturday 29 at 7.15pm, and Sunday 23 at 4pm.The full article contains 63 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.Page 1 of 1Last Updated: 20 October...
