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But the music soon gets grander, swooping into Verdi's La traviata as, with a ponderous lowering of underclothes and an awkward hauling on of sequinned frocks, the cast get glammed up.

Gardenia – review 2011

But the music soon gets grander, swooping into Verdi's La traviata as, with a ponderous lowering of underclothes and an awkward hauling on of sequinned frocks, the cast get glammed up.

Gardenia – review 2011

We have the classic 1954 "Don Giovanni" film, or Zeffirelli's "La traviata" or Rossi's "Carmen," but they all remain one-offs; now, we're seeing a veritable flood of opera in movie theaters, and it's all filmed versions of stage productions.

Thoughts on screened opera: Apres Carmen, le deluge? 2011

And while it will offer productions including songwriter Rufus Wainwright 's first opera, "Prima Donna," and a new production of "La traviata," it will do so on a budget of just $13 million, down from $31 million.

Battle Brews at City Opera Erica Orden 2011

This is no different from those 19th-century purists who castigated Verdi for writing an opera about a real-life courtesan though I bet these “Anna Nicole” haters just adore “La traviata” today.

On Anna Nicole and the critics 2011

At the extreme elitist end of the spectrum, worshippers eschew the mundane, living for sublime aestheticized moments involving the exhibition or performance of classic works requiring vast skill and capital to achieve in the form they crave: La bohème or La traviata, Giselle or Coppélia, the Eroica or The Magic Flute.

Spiritual Biography 2010

As if Washington hadn't had its share of bad weather already this year, Sunday's storm knocked out power to Strathmore, and thus forced the postponement of a sold-out performance of "La traviata" presented by Opera International, a program run by the Organization of Chinese American Woman.

Rain delay 2010

True confession, though: what hooked me on opera when I was a teenager -- and "hooked" is a mild term for the head-over-heels passion that transpired -- was Franco Zeffirelli's film of "La traviata."

HD and the live experience Anne Midgette 2010

At 22, he makes his debut, for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, as Alfredo in La traviata.

Christina Patterson: 'Opera Was My Secret Love': Interview with Roberto Alagna 2009

I'm not sure about "Rondine," but "La traviata" is a very Christian work, in which sacrifice and suffering work to purify and, it's implied, to redeem the "traviata" or wayward woman.

La Rondine elena maria vidal 2009