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The show belongs, of course, to Violetta Valery.

Anderson quite simply has done nothing finer for Lyric Opera.

She internalized every emotion of the role with her usual intensity and conviction, from desperate gaiety to startled joy at her first stirrings of love for Alfredo, right on through to her deathbed scene, which tugged mightily at the heartstrings of even the most jaded opera-goers Every dramatic gesture seemed careful thought out, yet nothing appeared mannered or merely gratuitous.

. er fiorature were uniformly true, she was able to project easily throughout the theater even when singing softly ( how beautifully she floated the bel canto line of " Addio, del passato ", giving us both verses of the aria ), and she commanded the audience's sympathy like the canny singing actress she is.

Anderson's Violetta lives up to the great Lyric tradition.