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Director: Tiziano Mancini
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Stars: Svetla Vassileva, Massimo Giordano, Vladimir Stoyanov.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2812738/
18th Verdi opera.
Premiere 1853, Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Place: Paris and its vicinity.
Time: Beginning of the 19th century
Filmed at Teatro Regio di Parma
Really lavish costuming/sets/cast size; clearly a cash cow. Great colors. The country house is drab, a restful contrast to the Paris digs where the first party occurs, but they have a snowy backyard and glass window(s); Alfredo threw an egg at it, and then showed us where the egg hit, smearing egg and shells; not in other prod's I've seen. Her death bed room is dark/drab, but that's appropriate.
Was more drawn to papa Germont's (Stoyanov) singing than in other perf's I recall. And by that I mean the singing/vocal_acting, not the visual_acting, because he's no treat to look at (although I'm sure that face is great for other baritone:villain roles).
A nice, traditional perf.
The Great Course has ~1 chapter on this opera, then refers us to one of his other courses.
Per the 2012 featurette, without naming the source of world-wide most-performed rankings, this is 1st among Verdi's operas, 2nd among all operas. (another source-less list of the top 100; Operabase Statistics).
Unitel, cond. Temirkanov; 8
