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Subject: Ailyn Perez

  • Last Night: Verdi's La Traviata at the War Memorial Opera House

    Chris HardyAilyn Pérez as Violetta ValéryBetter than: Sex (work).It figures, doesn't it, that it was Rhett Butler -- that manliest of men -- who opined that reputation is something people with courage can do without.  Change "people" to "men," add italics for emphasis, and you'd have the take-away lesson from Verdi's La Traviata.  (That, and young soprano Ailyn Pérez is brilliant -- more on that shortly.)  Its heroine -- one of the more fully realized female roles in traditiona

    July 2, 2009