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| Elbenita Kajtazi while performing |
German critics have written with superlatives about the Albanian soprano Elbenita Kajtazi, after the performance of Verdi's "La Traviata" in Hamburg.
"Dear friends, I am happy to share with you some of the German criticism regarding the interpretation of Violeta's role by La Traviata here in Hamburg," the artist wrote on her Facebook profile. The success of the Albanian soprano has been supported by the famous soprano Ermonela Jaho.
"Your success Elbenita Kajtazi is the fruit of your colossal work that is crowned with applause and standing ovation of the public, where I was present. Nothing is impossible in life. Proud of you!" writes Ermonela Jaho.
"The show was a triumph for the 30-year-old soprano, Elbenita Kajtazi.
I have never experienced before after the end of the opera when the curtain opens and Violeta stands alone on the stage the audience rises like one immediately to her feet and applauds her with joy for a few minutes.
Elbenita Kajtazi receives long applause from the public of Staatsoper Hamburg who stood up for her...
"I did not have Elbenita Kajtazi on the radar, as they say, and I only heard her once before, like Naiade in Ariadne Auf Naxos. A few days ago she performed the Moons song from Dvořák's opera Rusalka at the Solidarity Concert for Ukraine and left a great impression on me with her beautiful, quite dark timbre and her expressive and deeply spiritual interpretation. That's why we got the tickets in a brief announcement of Traviata's performance today."
The evening of the play La Traviata was the triumph of Elbenita Kajtazi, who played the role of Violeta with great enthusiasm. The singer has a glamorous timbre, not as dark in Violetta as in the Rusalka arien, but has a strong voice and always has a beautiful sound over all the ups and downs of the role with a very light vibrato that serves to express the sensitivity of her soul.
Rarely have I heard such a wonderful combination of coloration in Semper Libera in the first act, with the flow of sound along with Giorgio Germont in the second act, the lyrical-dramatic explosion in the third act as well as the interpretation of "Addio del passato" in the fourth act.
Kajtazi's colors have been delicate, clean, pleasant as pearls spinning expressing the feeling of happiness still insecure in love. She creates the lyrical part in the first image of the second act with a gentleness without noticing any traces of grief and sadness, but she did not avoid the dramatic use in the third image of the second act and was completely convincing in the death scene in the third act.