Mané Galoyan steals the show in a Traviata for our age

By Nick Boston, 13 October 2018

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Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 12 October 2018

Verdi, La traviata

Glyndebourne Autumn

Christoph Altstaedt, Conductor

Tom Cairns, Director

Hildegard Bechtler, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Mané Galoyan, Violetta Valéry

Emanuele D'Aguanno, Alfredo Germont

Noel Bouley, Giorgio Germont

Claire Barnett-Jones, Annina

Emma Kerr, Flora Bervoix

John Mackenzie-Lavansch, Marquis d'Obigny

Nico Darmanin, Gastone de Letorières

Nicholas Folwell, Baron Douphol

Donald Thomson, Dr Grenvil

Daniel Mullaney, Giuseppe

Joseph Padfield, Flora's servant

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Glyndebourne Sinfonia

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****1

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****1

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****1

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***11

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****1

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Nick Boston

Nick has an MA in Music, specialising in performance and repertoire. His particular passions are choral music, chamber music and opera, with a particular interest in early music. He sings in a number of choirs in the south east of England, plays the piano and occasionally dusts off the violin. He writes about music here.