La traviata by Verdi, lau 25 maí 2024, Frá (2024/2024), Leikstýrt af Olivia Fuchs,, Hljómsveitarstjóri Killian Farrell, Fergus Sheil, National Opera House, Wexford, Ireland

CITY VICE, COUNTRY BLISS Violetta, a high-spirited, popular courtesan. Alfredo, her devoted but naive lover. The rural bliss they choose is shattered by fear of scandal. When their love reasserts itself, she is already on her deathbed. Opera’s most moving reunion. Verdi’s La traviata is based on the semi-autobiographical play, La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), by Alexandre Dumas fils. The subject is Dumas’s relationship with Marie Duplessis, someone that composer Franz Liszt once described as the only woman he had ever loved. Verdi’s acute and heart-rending response to a woman who died of TB at the age of 23 has immortalised not just her tragedy, but also her irrepressible character and appeal.