“Van Eijk lucked out with soprano Aylin Sezer, who is up to the complex role of Violetta on all fronts. Her singing is powerful when necessary and fragile when the exhausted woman thinks of her lost dream of love.”
NRC
“Aylin Sezer in the title role has a glowing voice and is superb in arias such as ‘Addio del passato’..." “Whereas the staging uses La Traviata as a pamphlet against abuse of women, the musical accompaniment is melancholy in nature. This makes for an impressive combination.”
Trouw
"Although the audience always has something to laugh at, there is something fundamentally wrong here. The cliché-ridden comedy on the stage doesn’t fit at all the dramatic story told by the music. Verdi uses musical means to show the tragedy hidden behind the festivity. How much suffering there is behind the façade. This is totally missing from this production. In Spanga anything smacking of tragedy is laughed off with a joke.”
Friesch Dagblad
"Opera Spanga holds up a mirror to the audience." "The ensemble scenes were clear, dynamic, full of energy, funny and at the same time rhythmic and taut. The bits involving two or three singers were very intimate, engaging, contained and even stylized. This contrast is extremely effective. The fact that the group scenes were often quite raw only served to strengthen this effect.”
Theaterkrant
“This is what Van Eijk intends for this production, she makes use of La Traviata to show the inhumanity of today’s sex industry, where women are nothing more than disposable merchandise. In this the production is extremely successful, not last of all thanks to the performance of soprano Aylin Sezer in the title role.(…) Sezer also proves able to tackle all the vocal challenges of the role with apparent ease; this alone makes a visit to Spanga well worth the trouble.
