OPERA REVIEW A Modern ʽTraviata,ʼ Where Time Keeps Ticking

OPERA REVIEW
A Modern ʽTraviata,ʼ Where Time Keeps Ticking
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Published: January 1, 201

Even diehard fans of the director Franco Zeffirelliʼs productions for the Metropolitan Opera have to concede that his 1998 staging of Verdiʼs “Traviata” was terrible. With its opulently garish sets and knee-jerk realism, the production dwarfed the cast, no matter what stars were singing. So the time has long since come for something different. And the intriguing new Willy Decker production that the Met introduced on New Yearʼs Eve could not be more different.

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