Natalie Dessay is playing the role of Violeta on Verdi's Traviata at the Santa Fe Opera on the following dates:
July 2009: 3, 8, 11, 17 & 24
August 2009: 4, 11, 17, 22, 26 & 29
Opera / Santa Fe, USA
Verdi: La Traviata
Role : Violetta
Saimir Pirgu, Keith Jameson, Laurent Naouri, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Wayne Tigges, Harold Wilson
Conductor: Frederic Chaslin
Director: Laurent Pelly
A review of 'La Traviata' by the Santa Fe New Mexican noted that:
"Dessay has waited some years to sing Violetta, and it's our luck she decided to perform it here first. The role is famously difficult vocally, so taking it on outside the Chicago-New York-London-Paris circuit was perhaps a factor. On the other hand, SFO can offer the world-famous soprano the concentrated rehearsal time she prefers for every project, plus the kind of intelligent colleagues she demands.
Not that there wasn't plenty of compelling singing. The fleet coloratura flourishes in the "Sempre libera" scene were as vital as Violetta's anguished, lyric sorrow later. Her dying wisps of sound in the last act seemed like they already came from another world. Even a few tiny breaks in the voice here and there, especially on soft high notes, were deftly incorporated into the character and the moment. It was an interpretation to remember and cherish.
Source: "La Traviata Opens SFO Season with Power and Passion", Santa Fe New Mexican
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