“As for Violetta, Jessica Bayne plays her as a steely bon-vivant, effortlessly singing her coloratura passages…as the opera continues, this flashy side drops away, to be gradually replaced with more dramatic and lyric singing. Can one soprano play all these parts? Ms. Bayne can. And does. All evening long. Violetta is rarely off the stage, but Bayne’s energy never flags, even as she convincingly portrays the degeneration of a woman dying from consumption. (At one point she even sings — beautifully — while lying on the floor.)”