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Datos

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La traviata (2005)

Giuseppe Verdi
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Opera
2h 18 min
Italian
FULL HD
Spanish
Production

In this cinema-inspired and highly poetic staging, Pier Luigi Pizzi brings us Verdi’s great drama to the salons and bedrooms of 1940s Paris. Norah Amsellem, in her magnificent performance as Violetta, is accompanied by José Bros as Alfredo and the great Renato Bruson in the role of Germont, under the masterly baton of Jesús López Cobos.

 

La traviata is the third and last opera in the 'popular trilogy’ (together with Rigoletto and Il trovatore), which marked the start of Giuseppe Verdi’s artistic maturity, and is with good reason one of his most beloved works. It is based on a famous novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias, telling the sad story of Marie Duplessis, the celebrated Parisian courtesan who died of that quintessentially Romantic disease, tuberculosis. La Traviata was the first opera to tell the unhappy story of a woman brought down by the hypocrisy of bourgeois morality, with an unprecedented level of realism. Violetta Valéry discovers true love with the young Alfredo Germont, but is forced to give him up at the request of his father, Giorgio Germont.

 

Verdi drew upon his own relationship with Giuseppina Strepponi, his future wife and loyal supporter, in this work. Its debut, on March 6, 1853 at La Fenice in Venice, was a failure, largely due to presenting scenes from ordinary life rather than stories about aristocrats and rulers. In this production, which opened the 2003-2004 opera season to great acclaim, Pier Luigi Pizzi set the work in Nazi-occupied Paris, where the characters are living from day to day in a permanent state of war, heightening their passion, the only thing they can hold onto.

Opera in three acts

 

Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Premiered at the Teatro La Fenice of Venice on March 6, 1853

Production of the Teatro Real

Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

 

Artistic team


Conductor | Jesús López Cobos

Stage director, set and costume designer | Pier Luigi Pizzi

Lighting designer | Sergio Rossi

Choreographer | Marco Berriel

Chorus master | Jordi Casas Bayer

 

Cast


Violetta Valéry | Norah Amsellem

Flora Bervoix | Itxaro Mentxaka

Annina | María Espada

Alfredo Germont | José Bros

Giorgio Germont | Renato Bruson

Gastone | Emilio Sánchez

Barone Douphol | David Rubiera

Marchese d’Obigny | Marco Moncloa

 

 

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