David McVicar Loathes Traviata, Directs It Anyway
"'I could never do such a coarse, clumsy, reduction of this woman' [he said in 2003]. Five years later, though, the curtain is about to rise on McVicar's new production with Scottish Opera, his first outing with one of opera's favourite classics. Has he changed his mind? Or changed La Traviata?" The Scotsman 10/29/08

Posted October 28, 2008 09:29 PM