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Passions fail to ignite
Bask in the gorgeous music and the beautiful arias, just do not expect to see top-drawer acting, is DAVID NICHOLSON'S verdict
FABULOUS SINGING: Stacey Alleaume as Violetta and David Junghoon Kim as Alfredo
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La Traviata
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
IT IS five years since the Welsh National Opera has performed Verdi’s La Traviata and it has dusted down the Italian maestro’s perennial favourite but with an ending that fails to bring the usual tears.
Stacey Alleaume is a feisty Violetta and has a ravishing voice to go with her acting skills. But it is David Junghoon Kim who is an uncertain Alfredo, despite his fabulous singing.
Both Alleaume and Kim will no doubt have stellar careers in the opera world, but in an opera where the two lead characters fall madly in love they both fail to convey that chemistry.
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