The World's best TV --Arte of course!-- will be live broadcasting the new production of
La Traviata from the World's best opera house --
La Monnaie/DeMunt -- in a little more than an hour time [20:00 CET].
Andrea Breth, one of the most talented and most accomplished theater directors today, produced the show [
I saw her recent Wozzeck and Lulu at the Staatsoper in Berlin (UdL) and loved them both immensely; I also saw (with some delay) her Kat'a Kabanova also staged in Brussels, that matched in quality the famous Christoph Marthaler production -- which should be by now in textbooks],
Adam Fischer conducts the LaMonnaie orchestra, which will be a curiosity on its own [
Fischer is huge in Mozart operas, and I can only guess the level of subtleties in conducting La Traviata], and the cast looks exactly what you would expect from the incomparable
Peter de Caluwe: the role of
Violetta will be sung by a lesser known
Simona Saturova,
Alfredo by always passionate
Sébastien Guèze, Giorgio by our top-fave
Scott Hendricks, and the cast for smaller roles is quite delicately composed too.
So, after two horrid live streamed production from the Munich Opera and tragic productions from The Met [live broadcast in the cinemas all over the world, unfortunately], here is the second super-promising show from Brussels that gives us hope that opera is not dead art [unforgettable production of Lulu in October was also produced at LaMonnaie/DeMunt].
Arte Live Web video is embedded below. Enjoy ;)
