Organization

Singer

Soprano

Elaine Alvarez

Violetta Valery

Tenor

Nathan Granner

Alfred Germont

Baritone

Kenneth Overton

George Germont

Kayla Nanto

Flora Bervoix

Lwazi Hlati

Gaston

Brandon Bell

The Baron Douphol

Bass

Gabrielle Gilliam

The doctor Grenvil

Prosper Makhanya

The Marquis of Obigny

Mezzo-soprano

Megan Koch

Annina

Stage director

John de los Santos

Lighting designer

Chad R Jung

Costume designer

Ashley Soliman

Set designer

Liliana Duque-Piñeiro

Conductor

Joe Illick

Fort Worth Opera

Orchestra

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

Italian

La Traviata -  (La traviata)

Fort Worth

United States

Bass Performance Hall

La traviata Verdi

Public

Private

La traviata

English

Spanish

Approved

This season, as Fort Worth Opera celebrates over seven decades of riveting performances in North Texas, it is only fitting that the company pay homage to the timeless classic that ignited a passion for opera here in Fort Worth seventy-five years ago. On November 25, 1946, FWO presented its first production, Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, to a sold-out house at the Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. Last seen by local audiences during the company’s 2015 Festival, this soaring, romantic masterpiece returns to the grand stage of Bass Performance Hall on April 22 and 24, 2022, with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

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From the mind of brilliant young director, choreographer, and opera librettist John de los Santos (FWO’s 2018 María de Buenos Aires, 2014 The Pearl Fishers, 2011 The Mikado, Frontiers and more), this emotionally gripping, ninety-minute chamber realization of the opera is reimagined through a contemporary lens with a unique sculptural aesthetic courtesy of illustrious set designer and sculptor Liliana Duque Piñeiro and wildly inventive visual artist and costume designer, Ashley Soliman. Set within and around the vicinity of modern-day Paris and featuring masterful, atmospheric lighting by FWO Resident Designer Chad R. Jung, the opera’s glittering cast features the three headlining performers of FWO’s Diamond Anniversary Gala and the company’s Lesley Resident and Studio Artists.

La traviata by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by John de los Santos,, Conductor Joe Illick, Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, United States

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