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Article: L.A. OPERA'S `LA TRAVIATA' ENTERS THE JAZZ AGE.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- June 10, 2006
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Byline: David Mermelstein Correspondent
It would be fun to speculate why the Los Angeles Opera, in bringing a new production of Verdi's ``La Traviata'' to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage on Wednesday night, chose Marta Domingo, wife of company impresario Placido Domingo, to direct it -- especially as she was afforded precisely the same honor the last time the company offered a new production of the opera, back in 1999.
But let's not succumb to such base musings when there's plenty to say about this new production, which recasts ``Traviata'' from the mid-19th century to the Jazz Age. The reasons for this change remain obscure, save that Domingo, also ...