Streaming Tonight: A Tale of Two Tones in the Met’s La TraviataMichael Mayer’s production makes the sparkly life so unsexy and over-sugared, the last act’s bleakness comes off as refreshingly spare.
A recital by Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian tenor, follows a pattern. With Vincenzo Scalera at the piano, the program begins with songs by bel canto composers—Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini. It has some ...