Word: traviatas
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...soccer matches on cable TV's ESPN started the hype. A music video that will air around the world shows the singers gleefully kicking around a soccer ball and singing what the backers hope will be the new Nessun dorma: the brindisi, or drinking song, from Verdi's La Traviata. (The promoters have not forgotten their prize song; Pavarotti will sing it just before the final medley...
...Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi directed by Liat Kaplan and Joel Bard starring Laurie Ann McGowan, Frank Ragdsale and Michael Morizio at the Lowell House dining hall March...
Thus, in keeping with this tradition of exploration, the company's superb production of La Traviata reaffirms the reasons for the work's immense popularity, as well as reminding audiences of today that there is as much enjoyment to be had in reviving the greats of yesterday as in testing those of tomorrow...
This year's Lowell House production wins its audience over with its simplicity and ability to convey the force of larger-than-life passions against the backdrop of decadent, aristocratic elegance. La Traviata sets musical gems in a sterling dramatic setting; the Lowell House Opera makes the opera's instrinsic worth the star of the show...
...desire to keep opera at a certain cultural level in society seems to be one cause of this sanitization. Richard Gere takes Julia Roberts to see La Traviata in "Pretty Woman"; the scene is interpreted as her first taste of this high cultural art form. Who cares that the heroine of the opera, Violetta, is a prostitute who leaves decadent Paris for the only true love of her life? The music is sublime (or so the operagoer is told beforehand) and of course, in Italian, love conquers all the nasty little moral quandaries of life. But whereas Violetta will...