This is all underlined by unobtrusive but instructive lighting from Jean Kalman. Bob Cowley’s restrained designs and sculpted shapes function like containers for Verdi’s emotional eloquence, and don’t need to do much more than that. Richard Eyre’s production is reliably bankable for good reason. This season will see 20 performances of it with three conductors and four casts, so Londoners will not be short on opportunities to see Verdi’s social melodrama after Dumas fils’ “La Dame aux Camélias.”
Richard Eyre’s production of “La Traviata” is celebrating its 25th year at the Royal Opera House, having proved itself a rock-solid box office winner alongside John Copley’s recently retired production of “La bohème.” This review is for the performance on Dec.
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