Verdi: La Traviata
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View on VideBits →Around 1850, in Paris. At a soirée, Alfredo Germont, a young man from a respectable Provençal family, falls in love with Violetta Valéry, a courtesan. Deeply in love, Violetta gives up her profession and devotes herself entirely to Alfredo. However, Mr Germont senior, in the name of bourgeois respectability, persuades her to break up with his son. Violetta then writes a letter of separation to Alfredo without revealing the real reason for her decision. The fatal illness from which she was already suffering then flares up once more. A month later, Alfredo learns from his father that Violetta never stopped loving him... ‘La traviata’ is a 3 act opera by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the novel ‘The Lady of the Camellias’ by Alexandre Dumas, fils (1848) and its stage adaptation (1852). Premiered on 6 March 1853 at La Fenice in Venice. From the 27-opera Verdi box set “Tutto Verdi”. Recorded live at the Teatro Regio in Parma on 4 April 2012.
Cast & crew
Yuri Temirkanov · Vladimir Stoyanov · Karl-Ernst Herrmann · Ursel Herrmann · Francesco Maria Piave · Daniela Pini · Armando Gabba · Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma · Tiziano Mancini · Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma · Massimo Giordano · Roberto Tagliavini · Gianluca Floris · Svetla Vassileva