La Traviata review

“Driving sense of inevitability”

ReviewsOct 14, 2024by David BenedictGlyndebourne, Lewes

Christian Federici and Elisa Verzier in La Traviata at Glyndebourne, Lewes. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith

Delicately assured revival places the perspective of Verdi’s consumptive heroine centre stage

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Call me Scrooge, but this over-told tale is so rarely done well

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David Benedict has been a daily columnist and theatre editor on the Independent and arts editor of the Observer. He is chief London critic of Variety, a regular guest on the BBC, and is currently writing the authorised biography of Stephen Sondheim. Read David's columns for The Stage every Wednesday.

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