Hurn Court Opera has come a long way since its creation by founder Lynton Atkinson in 2017. Established to showcase the talents of emerging singers on the threshold of their careers, La Traviata is the latest offering from this flourishing Dorset-based enterprise. Verdi described his 1853 tragedy as ‘a subject for our age’. Indeed, its narrative of the ‘fallen woman’ (derived from Alexandre Dumas’...