Unveiling a new "La Traviata" Friday night to a starry audience including Natalie Portman and Vanessa Redgrave, the Met triumphed with the most moving and exciting Verdi production in years. Deserving almost as much credit as Verdi himself was director Willy Decker, whose spare staging of the 1853 tragedy provided...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:22PM on January 2, 2011