Verdi La Traviata

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form all her scooping cast aside which one finds in abundance in her Lucia under Richard Bonynge Here however she makes ravishing use of those bits of tone that only she can produce those instances of coloratura and dramatic legato with little asides and small florishes of style that suggest her intelligent approach and her high degree of musical involvement in this role She does this in her I Puritani and her Anna Bolena less so in Roberto Deveraux and Maria Stuardaboth sets Listen to Addio del passato and the Sempre Libraravishing yes but there are again those nuances learned from Callas that she makes her own A very singualr performance and extremely moving with its detail and cry for pity throughoutfrom the start even Neil Schicoff is excellent not an unworthy Alfredo at all His is a great lyric tenor voice that should have been in the top line