[Met Performance] CID:255020



La Traviata
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, September 20, 1978

Debut : Eugenia Moldoveanu, Luis Lima, Yuri Mazurok




La Traviata (649)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Violetta
Eugenia Moldoveanu [Debut]

Alfredo
Luis Lima [Debut]

Germont
Yuri Mazurok [Debut]

Flora
Ariel Bybee

Gastone
Charles Anthony

Baron Douphol
Robert Goodloe

Marquis D'Obigny
Gene Boucher

Dr. Grenvil
Philip Booth

Annina
Ann Florio

Giuseppe
John Hanriot

Gardener
Paul De Paola

Dance
Suzanne Laurence

Dance
Dave Roeger


Conductor
James Conlon


Production
Alfred Lunt

Designer
Cecil Beaton

Choreographer
Norbert Vesak

Stage Director
Bodo Igesz





La Traviata received twelve performances this season.

Review 1:

Review from the Assoicated Press
On the third night of the Metropolitan Opera’s season, the three leading singers in Verdi's “La Traviata” were making their Met debuts.


The audience there was rewarded also, with really sensational performances by Eugenia Moldoveanu of Busteni, Romania in the title role and Yuri Mazurok of the Ukraine, U.S.S.R. as the elder Germont.


Mazurok's entrance was applauded since he was remembered singing Eugene Onegin here in 1975 as a member of the Bolshoi Opera. His baritone which has a tenor-like ring is as focused as an arrow and also goes straight to the musical and dramatic point.


Miss Moldoveanu, who has not sung in America before, is a leading soprano with the Romanian State 0pera who, since March also has been singing with the Vienna State Opera. She has a gorgeous, youthful tone, with enough vocal weight for the part but without distracting tremolo.

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