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Tears before bedtime: El-Khoury transcends Cairns’ chilly Glyndebourne Traviata

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“El-Khoury takes great risks in employing a wide range of vocal colours”
Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 1 August 2017
Verdi, La traviata
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Stefan Soltész, Conductor
Tom Cairns, Director
Hildegard Bechtler, Set Designer
Joyce El-Khoury, Violetta Valéry
Atalla Ayan, Alfredo Germont
Dimitri Platanias, Giorgio Germont
Rihab Chaieb, Flora Bervoix
Gabriele Mangione, Gastone de Letorières
William Dazeley, Baron Douphol
Dan Shelvey, Marquis d'Obigny
Henry Waddington, Dr Grenvil
Eliza Safjan, Annina
Anthony Osborne, Giuseppe
Edmund Danon, Commissioner
Dominic Sedgwick, Flora's servant
The Glyndebourne Chorus
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A strong new Figaro opens at Glyndebourne
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Glyndebourne's Saul still packs a punch 10 years on
*****
Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal
****1
Glyndebourne’s season opens with Rossini’s Barber of Seville
*****
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