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    Verdi: La Traviata Blu-ray (The Royal Opera) 2009
    Verdi: La Traviata Blu-ray (The Royal Opera) 2009

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    Verdi: La Traviata Blu-ray (The Royal Opera) 2009

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    • Verdi’s best-loved work, is performed here by a star cast in a revival of Richard Eyre's highly acclaimed 1994 production. Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts La traviata for the first time at Covent Garden and American soprano Renée Fleming returns to Covent Garden to sing Violetta for the first time with The Royal Opera. Joseph Calleja and Thomas Hampson complete the line-up of outstanding lead singers.

      Also available on DVD and as part of a Blu-ray box-set

      Violetta Valéry: Renée Fleming
      Alfredo Germont: Joseph Calleja
      Giorgio Germont: Thomas Hampson
      Annina: Sarah Pring
      Flora Bervoix: Monika-Evelin Liiv
      Baron Douphol: Eddie Wade 

      Royal Opera Chorus
      Chorus Director: Renato Balsadonna
      Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
      Concert Master: Vasko Vassilev
      Conductor: Antonio Pappano
      Music: Giuseppe Verdi
      Director: Richard Eyre
      Designs: Bob Crowley
      Lighting Design: Jean Kalman
      Movement: Jane Gibson

      Plus: Antonio Pappano interviews Renée Fleming; Cast Gallery

      Picture: 16:9
      Sound: 2.0 LPCM stereo / DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio
      Format: Blu-ray
      Region code: All Regions
      Running Time: 154 mins
      Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/ES/CH



    • "Renée Fleming is in complete command as Verdi's courtesan, facing down the awesome difficulties of her big first act solo scene with assurance and maintaining a strong tone inflected with appropriate colours... [Calleja] presents an ideal combination of the vulnerable and the headstrong... Antonio Pappano takes charge of this revival, searching out the meaning of Verdi's score in a supple, sentient reading that sweeps you along." The Guardian

      "[On Fleming] But what a sound it is and how – in true bel canto fashion – it shapes and defines the emotion. The little hairpin dynamics, the wistful portamenti, the way in her climactic act one aria she takes time to savour the 'mysterious', 'exalted' tone of the music culminating in a real (and properly ecstatic) trill." The Independent

      "I was sniffy about her [Fleming] first night but this DVD comes from later in the run, by which time she had found an uncharacteristic emotional freedom. She is still the prima donna playing the part, but the beautiful sounds she makes, especially in the Act One finale and the Act Two party, are well worth hearing, and the high-quality film-work puts us right at the heart of the action." Financial Times

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