Organization

Conductor

Alastair Willis

Stage director

Carl Ratner

Set designer

Damen Mroczek

Costume designer

Emily Chidalek

Chorus master

Nancy Menk

Repetiteur

Mariah Boucher

Singer

Soprano

Anya Matanovic

Violetta Valery

Tenor

Emanuel-Cristian Caraman

Alfred Germont

Baritone

Samson McCrady

George Germont

Eleni Taluzek

Flora Bervoix

Mezzo-soprano

Temple Hammen

Annina

JungGeun Kwon

Gaston

Ben Ganger

The Baron Douphol

Bass

Tanner Hoerz

The Marquis of Obigny

The doctor Grenvil

Raj Das

Giuseppe

Quin Wezeman

Flora's Servant

George Zielke

Commissioner

Others

South Bend Chamber Singers

Orchestra

South Bend Symphony Orchestra

South Bend Lyric Opera

Graphic Designer

Hannah Counselor

Italian

La Traviata -  (La traviata)

South Bend

United States

DeBartollo Performing Arts Center

La traviata Verdi

Public

La traviata

English

Approved

Don Giovanni: Don Giovanni Mozart

La Traviata
March 13th, 2022

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Venue:

DeBartello Performing Arts Center

Featuring:

Alastair Willis,

Artistic Director of South Bend Symphony Orchestra

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The third production of the SBLO’s 2020-2021 season will be the immensely popular and frequently performed La Traviata. Giuseppe Verdi’s modern classic will be presented as a first-time collaboration between the SBLO and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra (SBSO), under the masterful direction of Maestro Alastair Willis. In addition, SBLO and the SBSO will also partner with the South Bend Chamber Singers, one of the best professional choirs in the region, skillfully led by Dr. Nancy Menk.

 

La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi has an Italian libretto, based on Alexandre Dumas’ La Dame Aux Camélias (1852), and may be the most performed opera in the world. It is an intimate, domestic opera that was originally staged in modern dress, blurring the lines between audiences and onstage characters. In composing the work, Verdi used musical styles typically reserved for kings, queens, and heroes to portray regular people. He elevated the lives of normal characters, including everyday ugliness (i.e. prostitution) and raw emotion, all while pushing the boundaries of opera as a form. However, La Traviata is not a calcified museum piece because its themes of love, sacrifice, disease and misfortune are still painfully with us. Because audience members might still mirror the plight of its characters, it is an immersive, rather than an escapist, work of art.

 

For the first time in decades, this production will bring together three professional performing arts groups from the region. The collaboration will yield an exceptionally local creation, broadening participation and cooperation to offer South Bend audiences an opera of superior quality and expression. This unique production will be directed by Carl Ratner, whose prodigious career includes work at The Metropolitan Opera (NY), The Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow) and Covent Garden (London).

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble