La Traviata

Verdi La Traviata opera to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Directed 2009 by Richard Eyre at the Royal Opera House. Stars Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Monika-Evelin Liiv, Kostas Smoriginas, Eddie Wade, and Richard Wiegold, Haoyin Xue, Sarah Pring, Neil Gillespie, Charbel Mattar, and Jonathan Coad. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (Concert Master Vasko Vassilev) and the Royal Opera Chorus (Chorus Director Renato Balsadonna). Designs by Bob Crowley; lighting by Jean Kalman; movement direction by Jane Gibson; film direction by Rhodri Huw. Released 2011, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: A

The L'OperaDou Jury gave this production an "A," and this is the grade we will use on this website. But Gordon Smith, the Judge for the L'OperaDou Jury, still appears to prefer the La Scala version with Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas over all other HDVD Traviatas.

Please help us by writing a comment that we can place here as a mini-review of this title.