Check out this pictury goodness. All photos from Yuri Temirkanov's conducting of Verdi's La Traviata in Parma, Saturday, October 6, 2007 on occassion of Festival Verdi 2007 @ Teatro Regio di Parma ^.^
(Above: This is what you see when you enter Parma and then turn around in your tracks. Noticed the VerdiFest 2007 poster? Of course you did.)
(Above: the building on the right is the facade of the Teatro Regio di Parma.)
(Above: VerdiFest 2007 and main street Parma.)
(Above: La Trav)
(Above: La Trav)
(Above: An outdoor exhibition on the opera of Verdi.)
(Above: Close-up of said exhibition. "Ah! Un altro bacio..." from Otello).
(Above: Many of the stores in Parma were displaying, in the front windows, props and costumes from past Teatro Regio Verdi productions.)
(Above: Another store makes a display of costumes from a past Verdi production.)
(Above: And again.)
(Above: Composite view of Teatro Regio di Parma. It's purdy.)
(Above: Curtain call of La Traviata.)
(Above: Homage to Svetla Vassileva's gray socks, which made the act III dying Violetta kinda cozy.)