A video glimpse into Zefirelli's Traviata @The Met, 2010

. As far as I know this is the first video posted anywhere showing something from this production (that sadly won't be seen again at the...

Leonard Slatkin hits again. "She went off the charts"

" If we still couldn't work it out, then one of us would have had to go, but it should have happened after the dress rehearsal ,...

Photos of Traviata in Met's archive

Photo@Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. Taken during the rehearsal on March 25, 2010 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City . The ar...

Interview during the first interval of La Traviata_Met_April 17th

. The interview is very short. Angela and James Valenti speak about singing in Traviata . Jump to minute 4 to listen to it. Before that ther...

Traviata. 7th performance. Met/April 21st

. This is the 7 th and last performance of this run with Angela as Violetta Valery. The rest of the cast remains unchanged. Yves Abel is ...

Traviata at the Met. April 10th. Photos and impressions

. Thanks for waiting. I know that some of you are curious :). The pictures are uploaded on the other blog. Click HERE or on the picture to ...

Traviata. 6th performance. Met/April 17th

. If nothing changes while I'm not here, the cast remains the same (Gheorghiu/Valenti/Hampson) and Yves Abel is conducting. It is SOLD ...

On a beautiful evening of April I saw Traviata at the Met

. For the moment, just this. So you'll be curious to see what's next and you'll come back. I attended the performance on April ...

Traviata. 5th performance. Met/April 13th. Abel takes the baton

UPDATE - Angela cancelled this one. . . The cast remains the same. But Yves Abel takes Steven White's place. This performance is not ...

3rd is the lucky one. Traviata at the Met. It was THE one!

. The 3rd performance of Traviata at the Met just ended. It was soooo different from the premiere night. I don't know how it was when M...

Traviata. 3rd performance. Steven White's debut at the Met/April 7th

Met just announced on the website that the conductor for the performance on April 7th will be Steven White . This performance is SOLD OUT. ...

Armiliato: "Angela knows exactly what she wants"

. A nice, long interview that Mrs Armiliato gave to Zinta Lundborg from Bloomberg. He tells how he couldn't refuse Peter Gelb when he a...

Armiliato, the wizard of Traviata

. With Mr Armiliato in the pit, everybody was happy on stage. According to the article published by Anthony Tommasini in New York Times , M...

Traviata. 2nd performance. The Met/April 3rd

. Saturday evening, April 3rd. Marco Armiliato is conducting this performance, replacing Leonard Slatkin who whithdrawn "for personal...

Traviata. Curtain call on Monday evening

. Thanks a lot, Linda! I'm also waiting for your thoughts ;) .

Maestro Slatkin keeps writing about Traviata. Conducting it might be history...

. It's just a rumor , but when La Cieca "hears" something, it's true in most of the cases. As it was Angela not showing ...

"My real life continues on stage"

. Mediafax , the Romanian press agency, has a correspondent in New York. Mr Ilie Fugaru talked to Angela after the performace of Traviata ...

The sound of the premiere. La Traviata. March 29th.

Last night, at the MET. It was beautiful. If you intend to attend, don't listen. You might spoil the pleasure of listening to the amazin...

Notes on rehearsing Traviata. By Leonard Slatkin

. Does the name sound familiar? it should. He's the conductor of La Traviata at the Met. And he has a very good habbit. He keeps a sort...