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...TRAVIATA Boston Lyric Opera Shubert Theater November...
...November run of the Boston Lyric Opera's La Traviata marks several firsts. This is most importantly the first show of the 1998-99 season of the Boston Lyric Opera, which now in its 22nd year is considered to be the fastest-growing opera company in America. This new season is also the first time the company is performing at the lavish Shubert Theater (usually reserved for touring Broadway companies), right next door to their old venue, the Emerson Majestic. This is also baritone Hector Vasquez's debut on the BLO stage after four seasons at the Metropolitan Opera...
...other entertainments for the members of the upper middle class--who, despite her shallow and flamboyant lifestyle, is caring and gentle at heart. Although she is very weak due to a severe case of tuberculosis, Violetta persists in throwing boisterous fetes that only make her worse, and the opera opens in the midst of one of these late-night revels...
...ensemble that rarely overpowered the singers. The orchestra consistently rose to whatever musical tasks Verdi's score demanded--be it charming and bubbly Parisian waltz music, subtle love aria music, or even the passionate, bombastic, coronary-inducing orchestral forces sometimes needed in the more histrionic scenes of high tragic opera...
...Hoyes' essay, originally published in Diversity & Distinction, she reflects on the complications race may bring to her dream of becoming a professional opera singer...