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...Christine Schäfer’s Violetta made a striking impression as a frail Edith Piaf figure but the staging was essentially festival fare, not a repertoire vehicle that would earn its way through multiple revivals...
...With poster-children like the octogenarian American lesbian widow Edith Windsor, gay activists won over conservatives. Stealing conservative language is the tactic....
...This is Violetta, recast as Edith Piaf in Christoph Marthaler’s new take on a Verdi lollipop, an attempt to make the courtesan’s tragic end relevant to contemporary audiences....
...Replacing Felicity Lott, who may well have found this role beyond her, Marie-Ange Todorovitch intones Madame Alexandra’s lines with the booming penetration of an operatic Edith Evans, Anne-Catherine Gillet...
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