Opera Reviews – Janet Ruth Heller

Review of La Traviata Performed by the Metropolitan Opera

Author: Janet Ruth Heller August 26, 2017

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances on August 25, 2017 features spectacular singers. Sonya Yoncheva as Violetta Valéry, Michael Fabiano as her lover Alfredo Germont, and Thomas Hampson…
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A Review of Rossini’s Maometto II at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto

Author: Janet Ruth Heller July 3, 2016

I saw Rossini’s Maometto II at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto on May 5, 2016. It was sung in Italian with English translations projected above the stage. Although this opera is entitled Maometto II, the main character is really young Anna,…
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