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Opera

I can’t see the point of Glyndebourne’s La traviata

Plus: Opera Holland Park’s Norma is clunkiness personified

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

26 July 2014

9:00 AM

La traviata

Glyndebourne, in rep until 23 August

Norma

Opera Holland Park, in rep until 8 August

One of the highlights of last year’s Glyndebourne Festival was the revival of Richard Jones’s Falstaff, spruced up and invigorated by Mark Elder’s conducting of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a beautifully balanced cast. Elder is also in charge again for the festival’s third new production of this year, Tom Cairns’s La traviata, although with the London Philharmonic this time.

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