La Traviata
Royal Opera House
Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance
Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera ended its season with yet another revival of Richard Eyre’s production of La Traviata, and the Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance, the latter a most interesting affair, but without much of a critical presence, presumably because it was at 1 p.m. on a Saturday. The distinctive feature of the Traviata revival was that Angela Gheorghiu returned to sing the role of Violetta, in which she had her first great international success, and which she has not sung at Covent Garden since 1996. I attended the third performance (First Capital Connect had thwarted my attempt to go to the first) and was somewhat disappointed. I had very high expectations. Despite the fact that Traviata has been served very well at the Royal Opera recently, notably by Anna Netrebko and by Ermonela Jaho, the latter a few weeks ago, I hoped for something remarkable.
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