Detroit Adult Entertainment: New conductor rescues the Met’s ‘Traviata’

April 4, 2010 at 1:13 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments

Gone was Leonard Slatkin, who presided over Monday night’s season premiere of the Verdi opera with a striking lack of coordination between the orchestra and singers. In his place Saturday night was Met mainstay Marco Armiliato — only four hours after he had led a matinee performance of another Verdi work, “Aida.”
Even a routine performance by Armiliato would have come as a relief, but the audience got something better: an expert hand guiding the delicate and tuneful score that allowed two top-notch veterans and one promising newcomer to shine in their roles.
Verdi’s tale of the courtesan Violetta, who finds true love, gives it up, and then dies of tuberculosis, is first and foremost a showcase for a singer who can capture the glamor and pathos of the role in her acting and her voice. Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu fulfills the requirements as well as anyone singing the role today.

See the full article from “The Associated Press”

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