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“Libiam!” Raising a glass to 25 years of Covent Garden's glorious Traviata

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“Avetisyan did well to ignore conductor Daniel Oren’s frantic hand waving”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 17 December 2019
Verdi, La traviata
The Royal Opera
Daniel Oren, Conductor
Sir Richard Eyre, Director
Bob Crowley, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Hrachuhí Bassénz, Violetta Valéry
Liparit Avetisyan, Alfredo Germont
Sir Simon Keenlyside, Giorgio Germont
Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Flora Bervoix
Andrés Presno, Gastone de Letorières
Sarah Pring, Annina
Germán Enrique Alcántara, Baron Douphol
Timothy Dawkins, Dr Grenvil
Jeremy White, Marquis d'Obigny
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