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La traviata Reviews"Ladner brings to Violetta all the soaring vocal beauty and discomfiting
angst the role deserves... This is as fine a Traviata as you will see anywhere
outside the world's major houses - or, indeed, inside some of them." "All three principals address their roles with vocal confidence and
dramatic assurance. Robert Poulton as Germont père, brings exactly the right
blend of vocal gravitas and bourgeois outrage to the part, and yet manages to
make a character who usually registers as blindly moralistic seem almost humane.
Kate Ladner as Violetta is touching and so is Elaine Kidd's production. Quality
is on display in the striking designs, by Giuseppe and Emma Belli. John
Gibbons's conducting shows a precise understanding of Verdian style and
motivates the score from start to finish." "Opera Holland Park?s imaginative new production really does work.
Giving a chic backdrop to this intelligent staging are the settings by Giuseppe
and Emma Belli, whose glamour brought home just how central a figure in society
Violetta is. Kate Ladner?s rendition of Violetta showed admirable stamina
throughout. This Violetta is her own woman andLadner?s voice was impressive on
many levels. Tenor Seán Ruane is one of Opera Holland Park?s success
stories...he has now taken on Alfredo with estimable self-assurance. The
audience loved Robert Poulton?s Giorgio Germont... this was a stylish
performance." "OHP have assembled a strong cast for La traviata. From the opening
orchestral phrases it was clear that this was going to be a performance with the
highest of musical standards. Kate Ladner's Violetta displayed both passion and
dignity, always sensitive to the score, and she was matched by the ardent
lyricism of Sean Ruane's Alfredo. Robert Poulton made a powerful Germont Pere." |
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