Name: La Traviata
Start: 2014-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Soprano

Diana Damrau

Violetta Valery

Ailyn Pérez

Tenor

Francesco Demuro

Alfred Germont

Stephen Costello

Baritone

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

George Germont

Simon Keenlyside

Michel de Souza

The Baron Douphol

Ashley Riches

Bass

Jihoon Kim

The doctor Grenvil

Jeremy White

The Marquis of Obigny

Charbel Mattar

Luis Gomes

Gaston

David Butt Philip

Conductor

Dan Ettinger

Stage director

Richard Eyre

Costume designer

Bob Crowley

Set designer

Nadezhda Karyazina

Flora Bervoix

Mezzo-soprano

Sarah Pring

Annina

Gaynor Keeble

Royal Opera House

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La Traviata -  (La traviata)

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La traviata

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The first of five animated films inspired by opera in collaboration with Kingston University students, 2014.

Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/operashorts


We invited a group of students into the Royal Opera House to immerse themselves in what opera is and how it is made.
 
The resulting films are sometimes about the art form and sometimes about a specific opera but they all exude a refreshing and playful enthusiasm for opera's potential to tell transformative stories.

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'A toast to the pleasures of life!' -- so sing Violetta, her new admirer Alfredo and her party guests in the opening scene of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata. But beneath the surface glamour of Violetta's Parisian life run darker undercurrents: her doomed love for Alfredo and the tensions the lovers encounter when they break society's conventions. La traviata, based on Alexander Dumas fils's play La Dame aux camélias, is one of Verdi's most popular operas, combining drama, profound emotion and wonderful melodies.

Richard Eyre's classic production conveys the indulgent social whirl of 19th-century Paris. It provides a vivid setting for Verdi's tuneful score, which includes such favourites as Violetta's introspective 'Ah fors'è lui' and ecstatic 'Sempre libera'; the duet 'Pura siccome un angelo' as Giorgio Germont begs Violetta to leave Alfredo; and 'Parigi, o cara', in which the lovers poignantly imagine a life that will never be theirs. The role of Violetta (the 'fallen woman' of the title) is one of Verdi's most complex and enduring characters.

Opera Short #1: Inspired by Alfredo and Violetta's romance in La traviata

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