Description
Revival of the production created in Paris in 2019 (read our franch column), and which should have been resumed on this same stage in 2020.
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- La Traviata: 'Brindisi' ('The Drinking Song') Alfredo and Violetta lead the chorus in one of opera's most famous tunes, a 'brindisi' or a toast, to kick off Violetta's party.
- La traviata tells the story of the tragic love between the courtesan Violetta and the romantic Alfredo Germont. Played out against the hypocrisy of upper-class fashionable society, Alfredo and Violetta's love threatens to shame his family.
- La traviata, opera in three acts by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (libretto in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave) that premiered in Venice at La Fenice opera house on March 6, 1853.
Schedules not communicated to date (December 2020).
Following the measures adopted by the government in the context of the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, the opera had to cancel the performances of this production. It will however be available in live-stream on March 7, 2021, with Juan Diego Florez in the role of Alfredo, replacing Frédéric Antoun.
More information is available on the official website of the opera house.
Schedule
March 04, 2021 00:00:00
March 07, 2021 00:00:00
March 12, 2021 00:00:00
March 17, 2021 00:00:00
March 20, 2021 00:00:00
Casting
Work's characters list
Director
Conductor
Violetta Valéry
Alfredo Germont
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Flora Bervoix
Giorgio Germont
Annina
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In January 1847 a young woman lay dying of consumption at 11 Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris. Her name was Marie Duplessis. She had recently turned 23 and was the most fashionable courtesan in Paris, the uncontested queen of the horizontales who serviced the city's rich bourgeoisie, upper classes, artists, writers and musicians. Her life and death would inspire Verdi's most famous opera – La traviata.
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By all accounts Duplessis was as refined as she was brilliant, precocious and generous. Franz Liszt was among her many lovers. He was touring Russia when news reached him that she had died. Hers, he declared, had been the sweetest nature, pure and serene, unsullied by the corruption of her shadowy world. Clearly there was something very special about Marie Duplessis.
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Nor did the wider French press hold back with their tributes after her death on 3 February 1847. After all, in addition to such lovers as Liszt, Alexandre Dumas fils and — perhaps too — Dumas père, Duplessis' wider circle of acquaintances encompassed some of her most illustrious contemporaries.
Within a year of Duplessis' death, Dumas fils had written La Dame aux camélias. They had been lovers for 11 months. The novel was instantly recognized as a roman à clef and took Paris by storm, not least because of its candid, unapologetic portrayal of forbidden pleasures and vices. Dumas' pretext for basing it so intimately on his own life was that at 24 he was too young to invent fiction.
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On 2 February 1852, pointedly almost five years to the day since her death, Dumas' dramatic adaptation of La Dame aux camélias received its premiere at the Vaudeville. It was almost certainly through this that Verdi and his companion, the singer Giuseppina Strepponi, first encountered the story of Marie Duplessis in the guise of Marguerite Gautier. Verdi appears to have decided there and then to compose La traviata.
