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Verdi: La Traviata / Ciampa, Damrau, Teste, Demuro [blu-ray]

Release Date: 09/11/2015
Label: Erato Catalog #: 551883
Composer:  Giuseppe Verdi Performer:  Anna Pennisi ,  Francesco Demuro ,  Diana Damrau ,  Nicolas Testé  ...  Conductor:  Francesco Ivan Ciampa Orchestra/Ensemble:  Paris National Opera Chorus ,  Paris National Opera Orchestra Number of Discs: 1

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Diana Damrau’s primacy as an interpreter of Violetta Valéry in La traviata can be inferred from the names of theatres where she has performed Verdi’s most popular opera: the Metropolitan, New York; La Scala, Milan; London’s Royal Opera House; the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Zurich Opera. Paris’s Opéra Bastille joined that list of leading houses in June 2014, when the German soprano appeared in a new production by the film director Benoît Jacquot. Conducted by Francesco Ivan Read more Ciampa, it is presented on this DVD release from Warner Classics, which joins a DVD of Verdi’s Rigoletto, with Damrau as Gilda, recorded in Dresden and released in 2010, and the recent CD release of the soprano’s spine-tingling interpretation of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, recorded live in Munich.

“[Damrau’s] voice is simply glorious, whether in cradled pianissimi or heroic outbursts...Her good-looking Alfredo, Francesco Demuro, has youthful passion and ringing tenor tone ... As Germont père, Ludovic Tézier shows off his superb baritone.” (The Financial Times)
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