Music by. Mark Suozzo. "Metropolitan" holds a glass up to the lives and values of a group of New York preppies during the debutante season. They live in a world I dimly knew existed, but one as alien to me as if they belonged to a tribe in the Amazon. Yet their motives are universally recognizable: They want to be accepted, admired and loved.
With La Traviata, Verdi and Piave fashioned an opera from a play set in contemporary timesāan exception in the composerās long career.Dumasās La Dame aux CamĆ©lias was a meditation on the authorās youthful affair with the celebrated prostitute Marie Duplessis, known as a sophisticated and well-read woman whose charms and tact far surpassed her station.
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