Name: La Traviata
Start: 2019-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-11-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro La Fenice

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Organization

Singer

Soprano

Zuzana Marková

Violetta Valery

Claudia Pavone

Tenor

Airam Hernández

Alfred Germont

Leonardo Cortellazzi

Baritone

Vladimir Stoyanov

George Germont

Simone Del Savio

Bass

Mattia Denti

The doctor Grenvil

Conductor

Stefano Ranzani

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Set designer

Patrick Kinmonth

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Choreographer

Philippe Giraudeau

Elisabetta Martorana

Flora Bervoix

Mezzo-soprano

Ilenia Tosatto

Annina

Teatro La Fenice

Others

Coro del Teatro La Fenice

Orchestra

Orchestra Del Teatro La Fenice

La Traviata -  (La traviata)

Venice

Italy

La traviata Verdi

Public

La traviata

Approved

When Verdi unveiled La traviata as a “subject of our time”, he hoped this salacious tale would receive a performance in modern dress for its première at La Fenice. Instead, the censors introduced a distancing effect by moving the action back to the 1700s, thus reducing the work’s impact as a critique of contemporary life. Robert Carsen’s production acknowledges Verdi’s wish by placing the action in a contemporary setting and providing a contemporary message to boot. Though this interpretation has enjoyed repeated success, first reopening La Fenice in 2004 after it burnt down for the third time in its history, and now in its fourth cycle in ten years, there were aspects of this performance that didn’t always work

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble