Traviata with no Joe McClain giving a curtain talk seems odd indeed. The company has obviously chosen to do without a lighting designer this time around (no credit found in the program, no artfulness in the lighting). We've been spoiled by David Nancarrow's lighting. This production might as well have taken place on the stage of a high school--rudimentary dimming and brightening, with a crude following spot for solos! There were corners cut or else the sound was bad for other reasons: an over-amplified and very muddy-sounding chorus. The chorus has not before been obviously "enhanced" in this way.