FALLING HARD: Lyric’s production of Verdi staple features stellar cast, lush production
[a preview of the Lyric Opera of Kansas' upcoming La traviata by Paul Horsley, original story here.] If you read Francesco Piave’s libretto for Verdi’s La traviata carefully, one startling notion jumps out at you: Violetta Valéry, the “courtesan” of the