Overview - Royal Opera House: La Traviata

Overview

Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice that is capable of wringing the finest emotions out of works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky that from a lesser singer could sound rather cold and clinical. I wouldn't have thought her voice would be so well suited to Violetta Valéry in La Traviata, and it does take some getting used to, but I think she at least brings a distinct quality to the role with an emotional heart that isn't always necessarily there when a leading diva uses it primarily as a display for her vocal talents. It's served well also by Antonio Pappano's conducting of the Royal Opera House Orchestra in a traditional, but effective production by Richard Eyre.

Cast

• Name: Renée Fleming

  Character: Violetta Valéry

  Popularity: 0.266

  

• Name: Joseph Calleja

  Character: Alfredo Germont

  Popularity: 0.2154

  

• Name: Thomas Hampson

  Character: Giorgio Germont

  Popularity: 0.1791

  

• Name: Monika-Evelin Liiv

  Character: Flora Bervoix

  Popularity: 0.0143

  

• Name: Eddie Wade

  Character: Il barone Douphol

  Popularity: 0.0936

  

• Name: Kostas Smoriginas

  Character: Il Marchese d'Obigny

  Popularity: 0.1321

  

• Name: Antonio Pappano

  Character: Self - Conductor

  Popularity: 0.1425

  

• Name: Richard Wiegold

  Character: Il dottor Grenvil

  Popularity: 0.0071