Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)La Traviata. Opera w czterech aktach z prologiem. Libretto oparte na Damie Kameliowej Aleksandra Dumasa. Powstała w 1853 roku. Akcja rozgrywa się w Paryżu w drugiej połowie XIX wieku. Opowiada historię miłości pełnej zawiłości i nieszczęśc wynikających z konwenansów. Główna bohaterka - kurtyzana Violetta Valery poświęca się dla miłości, kiedy jej ukochany powraca historia nie może już zakończyć się happy endem.Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Violetta in La traviata in a new production by the French director Jean-François Sivadier at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This DVD captures her intense performance in the company of American tenor Charles Castronovo as Alfredo and French baritone Ludovic Tézier as his father, Giorgio Germont. “Her theatrical impact is devastating,” wrote the Financial Times.With this new production of La traviata at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival, Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Verdi’s Violetta, a pinnacle of the soprano repertoire. She made her debut in the role in 2009 at the Santa Fe Festival in the US, and subsequently sang Violetta in Japan. Dessay’s 2011-12 season will include La traviata at the Vienna State Opera (in this Aix-en-Provence production by French theatre and opera director Jean-François Sivadier) and the New York Metropolitan.Violetta makes tremendous demands on a singer, both vocally and dramatically, and signals Dessay’s transition from lighter coloratura roles to the more full-blooded lyric repertoire. “I’m tired of playing weeping girls,” she told the French magazine Télé 7 Jours, “Violetta is a real woman. That makes a nice change!” The change was clearly successfully achieved: describing Dessay’s performance, the Financial Times wrote that “her theatrical impact is devastating”.Sivadier’s production was staged in the open air, in Aix-en-Provence’s exquisite Théâtre de l'Archevêché with its huge spiral staircases, medieval arches and 18th-century wings. The stage décor was minimal, the simple costumes evoked the 1940s or 1950s, and the prime focus was on intense characterisation.“One left the theatre emotionally knocked out, but fulfilled,” wrote the magazine Télérama, describing the production as “a magisterial success ... It would be hard to think of a couple more ideally young and beautiful than Natalie Dessay and Charles Castronovo [the stylish American tenor singing Alfredo].” The writer went on to praise “the art with which Natalie Dessay embodies and transfigures the character,” concluding by saying that: “La traviata – literally, the woman gone astray – has never found her way better than at Aix-en-Provence this summer.”Le Figaro found that “Natalie Dessay overwhelms with her fragility and commitment … The singers have the roles in their every fibre … the characters exist with a palpable intensity,” and remarked on the refinement of Louis Langrée’s conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra: “Have we ever heard so many shadings and nuances in Verdi’s orchestration?”The role of Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s father, is taken by the superb French baritone Ludovic Tézier. In Act II, set at Violetta’s country house near Paris, he sings the touching aria “Di Provenza”, in which he urges his son to return home to his family’s native Provence. In this case, Alfredo would not have far to travel!
- Wykonawca London Symphony Orchestra
- Data premiery 2012-04-16
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