Ruth Leon recommends…La Traviata – Royal Opera
Ruth Leon recommendsLa Traviata – Royal Opera
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The baritone in this production is a somewhat underpowered and unprepossessing Placido Domingo, singing out of his customary tenor range.
This is Richard Eyre’s lavish Royal Opera production of Verdi’s La Traviata starring Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho as Violetta Valéry, with American tenor Charles Castronovo as her lover Alfredo.
La Traviata is one of the world’s most popular and successful operas even though its opening night in Venice in 1853 was deemed a failure by Verdi. The chances are, though, that its lack of success with the knowledgeable La Fenice audience was due more to the casting of Violetta with an overweight 38-year old singer who was judged “too old and too fat” to play a young woman dying of consumption. They didn’t much like the Baritone, either.
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