COMPOSERS: Verdi
LABELS: Decca
WORKS: La Traviata
PERFORMER: Te Kanawa, Mazzoni, Borodina, Kraus, Hvorostovsky; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Zubin Mehta
CATALOGUE NO: 478 2500
Elegant singing throughout but, like Mehta’s spongy conducting, lacking spirit and detail. Both Violetta and Alfredo sound inescapably mature. Michael Scott Rohan