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If Giuseppe Verdi is indeed the greatest opera composer (which I certainly think he is ) then among his many great compositions La Traviata must surely be close to the very top...writes Victor Grynberg. Over the years it has been staged so many times in Australia with the lead role of Violetta, the dying heroine, played…

Stacey Alleaume as Violetta in Opera Australia’s Traviata is a ‘gorgeous orchid in a gaudy bouquet’.

Soprano Stacey Alleaume is almost ethereal in a scintillating performance as Violetta Valery in Giuseppe Verdi’s fraught, emotion-charged, love story La Traviata (which translates to The Fallen Woman). Her pure voice reaches remarkable highs as she dominates the stage in a bravura showing. Violetta is a Parisian courtesan and the life of every party. Recently…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is widely regarded as the third member of the greatest classical composers trio, along with Johann Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. A child prodigy, whose music is much loved 230 years after he died, there was no field in which he didn’t excel. Whether it was symphonies , concertos, chamber music, religious…