“Eglise Gutierrez starred in Miami Lyric Opera’s “La Traviata” Saturday night.
It has been 22 months since any pillar of the Italian operatic repertoire has been performed in Miami. (The last such production was Florida Grand Opera’s Madama Butterfly in January, 2020.)
On Saturday night, Miami Lyric Opera took a big step toward remedying that lyric drought with a semi-concert presentation of Verdi’s La Traviata. A nearly full house at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay greeted the company’s one-night return enthusiastically.
Billed as a concert version, the performance was considerably more. The small orchestra and chorus were onstage but the principal singers enacted their roles, none reading from a score. The men wore formal attire while the female singers were dressed in colorful costumes…”
Full article: https://southfloridaclassicalreview.com/2021/11/mlo-brings-back-italian-opera-with-an-inspired-traviata/