{"id":11648,"date":"2017-10-20T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/20\/la-traviata-review-mcvicars-verdi-is-a-gorgeous-but-stilted-visual-treat\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:52:06","slug":"la-traviata-review-mcvicars-verdi-is-a-gorgeous-but-stilted-visual-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11648","title":{"rendered":"La Traviata review \u2013 McVicar&#039;s Verdi is a gorgeous but stilted visual treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre Royal, GlasgowFor all its fin-de-si\u00e8cle opulance, Scottish Opera\u2019s revival of David McVicar\u2019s staging is best in the intimate moments rather than the big set piecesDavid McVicar\u2019s staging of La Traviata has proved to be the kind of enduring production that opera companies want to have in their repertoire. Having been much performed in recent years, it is now being revived by Scottish Opera, the company that gave the premiere in 2008.This is a firmly traditional production, albeit with psychological overtones. There is a suggestion that the opera is Alfredo\u2019s remembrance of his love affair: the prelude plays out as Violetta\u2019s empty apartment is closed up by retainers and a solitary Alfredo traverses the stage. The ensuing action is literally played out across her grave. Tanya McCallin\u2019s sets are pure fin-de-si\u00e8cle elegance (the action has been moved forward several decades from the date of the opera\u2019s composition) but it is a sombre, funereal opulence with a striking monochrome colour scheme. Violetta\u2019s sequence of dark, white and red frocks perhaps represents the different aspects of her personality as seen by Alfredo: the damned courtesan, the selfless angel and the seductive temptress. The garish flourishes of which McVicar is often so fond are kept to a minimum, with only a single cross-dressing gag in the act two party scene. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2017\/oct\/20\/la-traviata-review-glasgow-scottish-opera\" target=\"_blank\">La Traviata review \u2013 McVicar&#039;s Verdi is a gorgeous but stilted visual treat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre Royal, GlasgowFor all its fin-de-si\u00e8cle opulance, Scottish Opera\u2019s revival of David McVicar\u2019s staging is best in the intimate moments rather than the big set piecesDavid McVicar\u2019s staging of La Traviata has proved to be the kind of enduring production that opera companies want to have in their repertoire. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}