MAGIC at the MET Opera

Once in a season, if you are lucky, it all comes together--the singers, the score, the conductor, the director and set designer, and the audience.
Passover at the opera was just such an alignment. Oh. My. Ah. Ooo.
And who would have guessed it would be the season premier (but 953rd performance at the Met) of La Traviata. Joe Green's sappy score about true love and a consort, an 1880 Pretty Woman without Gere and Roberts.
Honestly, I sat the last half in the overflow room, hearing the commentary on satellite radio and watching on HD wide screen. Ripping, still. The auditorium temperature cooler than the nose-bleed section, and the savvy audience better than the humming tenor sitting next to me the first half in the bleachers.
Catch it---Leonard Slatkin (just marvelous)conducting, Paris sets by Franco Zeffirelli, and memorable James Valenti's debut at the Met as Alfredo.
Usually it is Wagner and James Morris. Tonight it was a French story, sung in Italian, a Romanian sorprano, and a tenor born in New Jersey!
Amazed...love wins.
More to come- Linnie