Looks like Anna Netrebko's Violetta is garnering
unanimous praise at Covent Garden. After performances of
La Traviata in Berlin, St. Petersburg, and London this season, she moves to
San Francisco next season. hovering cautiously, circling above
the ultimate prize: the culmination of years of practice as tubercular hooker, tentatively scheduled three seasons from now to charm and die on the world's grandest stage, and beamed to a cineplex near you.