"I like this production a lot because it is very theatrical and also very fragile. Because if not everyone acts with a lot of energy and concentration everything disappears. There is hardly any decoration, the stage is almost naked, a few chairs, that's it. Everything depends on us," says Natalie Dessay about Vienna's new staging of "La Traviata" in an interview with DER STANDARD. "Often singers are just singers. Fortunately, not always. But only if they are also actors opera can be truly great."
After the dress rehearsal of this new production of "La Traviata" at the Wiener Staatsoper two things can be said: 1. This production does work well thanks to Natalie Dessay's wonderful acting. 2. With "singers that are only singers" and without long rehearsal periods we might as well do a Traviata concert version after this premiere run.
Jen-François Sivadier's "La Traviata" premieres Sunday, October 9.
Jen-François Sivadier's "La Traviata" premieres Sunday, October 9.
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