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The best "Traviata", November 23, 1999 By LJW (USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas � Domingo � Milnes � Bayerisches Staatsorchester � Carlos Kleiber (Audio CD) Ileana Cotrubas will break your heart. Her sweet, silvery voice makes a delicate and touching Violetta. She sings a very sparkling and lovely "Sempre libera." Her voice is beautiful--far lovelier than Maria Callas's. And her interpretation of the role will leave you in tears, especially in her duets with Sherill Milnes' incomparable Germont. And in her "Addio del passato." Listen to the emotion in her voice when she reads Alfredo's letter....Placido Domingo is the perfect Alfredo with his warm, romantic tenor voice.
Don't miss this one. 1000 stars!
47 of 52 people found the following review helpful The greatest recording of Verdi's La traviata, March 11, 2000 By Daniel Reed Hanson (Atwater, California) - See all my reviews This review is from: Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas � Domingo � Milnes � Bayerisches Staatsorchester � Carlos Kleiber (Audio CD) I am here to say that if you're looking to buy the best recording, this is the one. I have heard several Violettas but this is the best one, and the professional opera critics will agree with me on this one. I've listen to Maria Callas in her Portugal performance with Kraus (in which her voiced seemed strained), which is pretty good, but you can heard the audience thoughout the entire recording, plus, the recording isn't in stereo and isn't conducted as good as this one. Sutherland does a great job and jumps though the part with great easy, however, there is no "pathos" or great acting in the voice. Victoria de los Angeles can't reach some on the high notes (especially at the end of "Sempre libera") and has a really strained voice in some parts. Ileana Cotrubas sings though the hard parts very nicely with great emotion, unlike a lot of sopranos. Domingo gives a great Alfredo along with Milnes as Germont. The orchestra and the conducting are superb. There... Read more
32 of 35 people found the following review helpful 
A puccinian La Traviata, September 3, 2000 By This review is from: Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas � Domingo � Milnes � Bayerisches Staatsorchester � Carlos Kleiber (Audio CD) It seems everyone has an opinion on Cotrubas as Violetta, so I will give mine. I heard her sing the role back in 1986 at the Vienna State Opera, and she was a small scale, vulnerable Violetta. I have always felt that Puccini' s women are pathetic, while Verdi's are "heroic". Her Violetta seem doomed from the very beginning, it was obvious this Violetta was a loser. She carried the 3 difficult voices of the role with aplomb, but somehow she didn't seem to live the role inside-out. Her conductor in Vienna was Michel Plasson, with whom she seemed to have a much better rapport than with Carlos Kleiber. Kleiber fils conducts a white-hot very dramatic La Traviata, but Cotrubas is not with him. She is too fragile for his view, I think Julia Varady would have fit much better in this recording. Domingo is fine as Alfredo, though he makes a weird sound at the end of the cabaletta. Milnes is not a natural Germont, Giorgio Zancanaro is much, much better either with... Read more
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| 48 of 51 people found the following review helpful The best "Traviata", By LJW (USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas � Domingo � Milnes � Bayerisches Staatsorchester � Carlos Kleiber (Audio CD) Ileana Cotrubas will break your heart. Her sweet, silvery voice makes a delicate and touching Violetta. She sings a very sparkling and lovely "Sempre libera." Her voice is beautiful--far lovelier than Maria Callas's. And her interpretation of the role will leave you in tears, especially in her duets with Sherill Milnes' incomparable Germont. And in her "Addio del passato." Listen to the emotion in her voice when she reads Alfredo's letter....Placido Domingo is the perfect Alfredo with his warm, romantic tenor voice. Don't miss this one. 1000 stars! 47 of 52 people found the following review helpful The greatest recording of Verdi's La traviata, By Daniel Reed Hanson (Atwater, California) - See all my reviews This review is from: Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas � Domingo � Milnes � Bayerisches Staatsorchester � Carlos Kleiber (Audio CD) I am here to say that if you're looking to buy the best recording, this is the one. I have heard several Violettas but this is the best one, and the professional opera critics will agree with me on this one. I've listen to Maria Callas in her Portugal performance with Kraus (in which her voiced seemed strained), which is pretty good, but you can heard the audience thoughout the entire recording, plus, the recording isn't in stereo and isn't conducted as good as this one. Sutherland does a great job and jumps though the part with great easy, however, there is no "pathos" or great acting in the voice. Victoria de los Angeles can't reach some on the high notes (especially at the end of "Sempre libera") and has a really strained voice in some parts. Ileana Cotrubas sings though the hard parts very nicely with great emotion, unlike a lot of sopranos. Domingo gives a great Alfredo along with Milnes as Germont. The orchestra and the conducting are superb. There... Read more 32 of 35 people found the following review helpful A puccinian La Traviata, By This review is from: Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas � Domingo � Milnes � Bayerisches Staatsorchester � Carlos Kleiber (Audio CD) It seems everyone has an opinion on Cotrubas as Violetta, so I will give mine. I heard her sing the role back in 1986 at the Vienna State Opera, and she was a small scale, vulnerable Violetta. I have always felt that Puccini' s women are pathetic, while Verdi's are "heroic". Her Violetta seem doomed from the very beginning, it was obvious this Violetta was a loser. She carried the 3 difficult voices of the role with aplomb, but somehow she didn't seem to live the role inside-out. Her conductor in Vienna was Michel Plasson, with whom she seemed to have a much better rapport than with Carlos Kleiber. Kleiber fils conducts a white-hot very dramatic La Traviata, but Cotrubas is not with him. She is too fragile for his view, I think Julia Varady would have fit much better in this recording. Domingo is fine as Alfredo, though he makes a weird sound at the end of the cabaletta. Milnes is not a natural Germont, Giorgio Zancanaro is much, much better either with... Read more |
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