La Traviata in Arena di Verona 2011
La Traviata 17 June 2011 21:15 - Arena di Verona
Melodramma in 3 acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Conductor - Carlo Rizzi
Director, sets and costumes designer - Hugo De Ana
Choreography - Leda Lojodice
Lighting designer - Hugo De Ana
InterpretersVioletta Valery - Ermonela Jaho
Flora Bervoix - Chiara Fracasso
Annina - Natalya Kraevsky
Alfredo Germont - Francesco Demuro
Giorgio Germont - Vladimir Stoyanov
Gastone - Luca Casalin
Baron Douphol - Nicolo' Ceriani
Marchese D'Obigny - Paolo Maria Orecchia
Doctor Grenvil - Gustáv Beláček
Giuseppe - Gianluca Sorrentino
Flora's Servant - Manrico Signorini
Commissioner - Manrico Signorini
Traviata, Parisienne prima donna representative of the "mal du siècle"
After the successful debut of Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi began to work on two new operas: Il Trovatore for the Teatro Apollo in Rome and another opera for the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The composition of the second opera is more tormented. The reason being that Verdi couldn't choose a subject. The inspiration came at the first performance in Paris of the theatrical piece La dame aux camélias from Dumas Fils' book, written in 1848, strongly autobiographical and with a highly scandalistic subject matter. Giuseppe Verdi entrusted the drafting of the libretto to Francesco Maria Piave who in just five days wrote the script for Traviata, reproducing substantially the dramatic scheme of the story and dividing the opera into three acts compared to five in the original story.
The idea of putting music to a drama which was very much discussed at that time is, to say the least, an audacious undertaking and shows the great courage of Giuseppe Verdi: the main character of the story, Margherite Gautier did, in fact, really exist. Verdi's opera loyally follows Dumas's text and above all the spirit of the drama of the French writer, but the names of the characters are changed for reasons of discretion.
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