The Traviata

The work of works. Based on a bestseller like The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, Traviata is passion outside the rules, a clash between rigid morality and freedom.

Fondazione Arena di Verona

It was held on 2 September '21
At 8.45pm

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La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It centers on The Lady of the Camellias, a play by Alexandre Dumas (son), which the same author drew from his previous novel of the same name. It is considered part of a so-called "popular trilogy" by Verdi, together with Il Trovatore and Rigoletto.

Highlighted

Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Choir Master Vito Lombardi

Stage director Michele Olcese

Interpreters

Violetta Valéry, Zuzana Marková

Flora Bervoix, Clarissa Leonardi

Annina, Yao

Alfredo Germont, Francesco

Giorgio Germont, Simone Piazzola

Gaston of Letorières, Marcellus

Baron Douphol, Nicolò Ceriani

Marquis D'obigny, Dario Giorgelè

Doctor Grenvil, Romano Dal Zovo

Giuseppe, Max René Cosotti

Housekeeper/commissioner, Stefano Rinaldi Miliani

Prima Ballerina, Alessia Gelmetti

Program

Violet Valéry, a young Parisian courtesan, for the sake of Alfredo he decides to change his life, to abandon Paris, its luxuries and transgressions, and to move to the countryside. There the two lovers live happily, but one day Alfredo's father arrives, Germont: he asks Violetta to leave Alfredo forever because their unseemly cohabitation threatens to blow up the marriage of his other daughter, Alfredo's sister. Violetta tries to oppose, but in the end, convinced by Germont, she writes a farewell letter to Alfredo (...)

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