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Music Review | La Traviata: Verdi’s Violetta Amplified for a Picnic in the Park (New York Times)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:42:28 GMT

If part of the aim of free concerts is to lure new listeners, the New York Grand Opera Company’s performance on Wednesday surely won a few new devotees.

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My Sexy Supermarket Foreplay (Duncan's TV Ad Land)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:00:31 GMT

MySupermarket.co.uk invited British shoppers to enter an online competition using a viral video playing with the genre of foreplay in the kitchen. A couple are inspired by the music of Verdi’s La Traviata (The Drinking Song) as they play with baked beans, paste, Marmite and sausage. “What you do with your groceries is your business. [...]

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Anna Netrebko on rehearsal at the Mariinsky Theater (Anna Netrebko)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Here they are two nice videoclips recorded from Russian TV channel Kultura and which have been uploaded to Youtube by Yeongiwon. Those uploads are acknowledge. The first one shows Anna Netrebko o n rehearsal for a performance of Verdi' s La Traviata at the Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg on 28. Nov 2007. Anna Netrebko sings Violetta Valery, Dmitry Voropaev sings Alfredo Germont, being...

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Tergermi da tanta macchia bramo! la Traviata Chaos @ la Scala (Opera Chic)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:56:38 GMT

La Scala's cross to bear this season comes in the form of the popular Verdi opera, La Traviata, and it just goes from bad to worse. Unbelievable fallout continues to spin-off from the January 2008 cancellation of the highly-anticipated Terry...

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Star-studded cast imparts sparkle to Verdi spectacular (Japan Times)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:20:00 GMT

The New National Theatre Tokyo is currently staging the opera "La Traviata" for the first time in four years. Renowned Japanese conductor Toshiyuki Kamioka, making his first-ever appearance at the NNT, will lead a cast peppered with world-famous singers. This work by Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi is set in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century. The audience will find themselves...

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Review: Marguerite (Whatsonstage.com)

Wed, 21 May 2008 07:36:02 GMT

Marguerite is a strange new musical to find in the West End at the moment, a glossily produced update of La dame aux camellias by Alexandre Dumas and its Verdi version, La traviata, set among the collaborators in Occupied France with more than a touc...

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Odd choices detract from beauty of 'La Traviata' (Detroit Free Press)

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:01:00 GMT

Verdi's "La Traviata," which closes Michigan Opera Theatre's season, is bulletproof. The characters are so appealing, the music so touching and the structure so sturdy that only monumental incompetence can destroy it on stage.

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MOT disappoints with 'Traviata,' but don't blame Verdi (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 11 May 2008 12:07:12 GMT

Like "La Boheme," "Carmen" and a few other standard repertoire evergreens, Verdi's "La Traviata," which closes Michigan Opera Theatre's spring season, remains essentially unkillable in the opera house. The characters are so appealing, the music so beautifully touching and glorious and the musical and dramatic structures so ingeniously constructed that competence is easy to achieve.

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MARK STRYKER: Beloved 'La Traviata' concludes MOT season (Detroit Free Press)

Thu, 08 May 2008 04:09:00 GMT

After exploring two rarities this spring -- Puccini's "La Rondine" and Bellini's "La Sonnambula"-- Michigan Opera Theatre winds up its season with a beloved evergreen, Verdi's "La Traviata."

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The Opera House Will Rock: Killer Flamingos, DJ Rubix Cube to Perform at MOT Fund-Raiser (Red Orbit )

Fri, 02 May 2008 02:00:14 GMT

By Erin Chan Ding, Detroit Free Press May 1--BravoBravo! parties it up at the Michigan Opera Theatre on Friday between performance dates for Giacomo Puccini's "La Rondine" and Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata." That's kind of like blasting Nirvana during a concert of works by J.S.

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Local Calendar, April 3 (Red Orbit )

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:00:38 GMT

TONIGHT Students from the University of Redlands School of Music and from Crafton Hills College present a full production of Verdi's opera "La Traviata," 8 p.m. at Crafton Hills College's Finkelstein Performing Arts Center. Continues at 8 p.m. April 4 and 5 and at 2 p.m. April 6.

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Sixshot Bits: Brief News On Lupe Fiasco, Outkast's Big Boi & Master P (Sixshot.com Urban)

Sixshot.com info@sixshot.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:43:54 GMT

Outkast's Big Boi has teamed up The Atlanta Ballet for performance called Big which will debut next month. The show will fuse new and unreleased music from Big Boi with Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata . Sleepy Brown, Scar, Khujo and Janelle Monae are also slated to appear in the show that will run from April 10-13 at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. For tickets and more information, visit...

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The Cliché-Busting Baritone (Opera Today)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:15:57 GMT

BY GEORGE LOOMIS [NY Sun, 17 March 2008] Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday is five years away, but it looks as though the baritone Thomas Hampson is celebrating early. His operatic docket this season includes Verdi operas exclusively — "Macbeth" in San Francisco, "Don Carlo" in Vienna, "La Traviata" in Chicago and Zurich. And he makes his debut as Don Carlo in "Ernani" tonight...

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Dog vs. dog in crooning contest (Arizona Republic)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:02:04 GMT

You haven't lived until you've heard a poodle belt out Earth, Wind & Fire's ''Shining Star'' or a Chihuahua perform part of Giuseppe Verdi's ''La Traviata.''

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La Traviata @ Opera House (Manchester Evening News)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:36:42 GMT

THE redoubtable Ellen Kent, practised in pleasing the crowds, takes on Verdi’s romantic tragedy as producer, director and designer.

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REVIEW; Modern 'Traviata' Packs a Punch; Verdi Goes to Vegas in Skylight's Bold Staging (Red Orbit )

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:00:23 GMT

By TOM STRINI In the Skylight's update of Verdi's "La Traviata," boy (Alfred Germont) meets pop star in Las Vegas 2008, boy's father (George Germont) objects, boy loses pop star, pop star dies. That's not so far from the traditional boy meets courtesan in Paris 1850, etc.

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Review: Modern 'Traviata' packs a punch (JSOnline)

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:52:08 GMT

In the Skylight's update of Verdi's "La Traviata," boy (Alfred Germont) meets pop star in Las Vegas 2008, boy's father (George Germont) objects, boy loses pop star, pop star dies. That's not so far from the traditional boy meets courtesan in Pa...

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The Skylight gives 'Traviata' 21st-century sex appeal (JSOnline)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:58:16 GMT

Verdi intended his "La Traviata" to be set in the present. But this operatic tale of a doomed, sympathetic courtesan and the gentleman who loved her, based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Alexandre Dumas the younger, was too politically and...

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Win tickets to see Madama Butterfly (Glamorgan Gazette (icWales))

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

WIN tickets to see Puccini’s Madama Butterfly or Verdi’s La Traviata at Swansea Grand Theatre, performed by the Ukrainian National Opera of Odessa.

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Verdi's La Traviata (PY)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:41:00 GMT

Emily told me that the upcoming production of Verdi's La Traviata presented by the Singapore Lyric Opera is worth watching. Furthermore, generally, I quite like music by Verdi. "Based on the book by Alexandre Dumas, this opera tells the moving tale of a beautiful young courtesan who gives up her pursuit of money and frivolity for the love of a man, only to discover love has come...

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