Verdi: La Traviata

Severely cut and rearranged, Zeffirelli's famous film suffocates under its own opulence; but Parisian and Provencal locations, Levine's rich conducting, Domingo and Stratas remain rewarding. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: 0734364
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Series: Unitel

Grammy Awards

26th Awards (1983)

Best Opera Recording

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Verdi: La Traviata

Teresa Stratas (Violetta), Plácido Domingo (Alfredo), Cornell MacNeil (Giorgio Germont)
Metropolitan Opera
James Levine, Franco Zeffirelli

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Staged and Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli

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May 2008

Severely cut and rearranged, Zeffirelli's famous film suffocates under its own opulence; but Parisian and Provencal locations, Levine's rich conducting, Domingo and Stratas remain rewarding.

2010

From the start Stratas's face reflects all the shades by which hope and fear, the public image and the inner self may be expressed. Both meet the notoriously disparate vocal demands of the role, though Stratas's voice sounds worn on the high notes. In the last act Stratas's relative slightness of vocal and physical build works to her advantage. Both are fine in the developing emotions of the great duet with Germont père...Levine's flair is most evident in vigorous rhythmic passages such as the dances and the card game

April 2008

… the start Strata's face reflects all the shades by which hope and fear, the public image and the inner self may be expressed.

2010 edition

It is Zeffirelli who dominates the filmed Met. production...But that does not detract from the passion or the tragedy...[Stratas] totally identifies with Violetta and movingly carries us with her...Domingo is Domingo, and he sings with the fullest, boldest ardour.

New York Times

Dazzling…a triumph…not to be missed.

Verdi: La Traviata

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