Aurelia florian biography of martin

The final opera to be conducted by Maestro Nicola Luisotti during his nine-season tenure as Music Director of the San Francisco Opera is Verdi’s “La Traviata”.

The opera, presented in British Director John Copley’s classic 1987 production, was the occasion for the San Francisco Opera debuts of Aurelia Florian, the Violetta; Atalla Ayan, the Alfredo; and Artur Rucinski, the Elder Germont.

Aurelia Florian’s Violetta

The performance introduced Romanian soprano Aurelia Florian to an appreciative War Memorial Opera House audience.

Florian demonstrated that she had all the vocal requisites for the role – a secure legato, brilliant coloratura technique, and, when needed, a voice of spinto power.

Florian enlisted her acting skill to create a portrait of a woman who is plagued by insecurities and self-doubts, even as she achieved a degree of economic security in Parisian society.

[Below: Soprano Aurelia Florian as Violetta; edited image, based o