Organization

Choreographer

Helge Letonja

Singer

Soprano

Anita Hartig

Violetta Valery

Lighting designer

Guido Levi

Set designer

Vincent Lemaire

Bass

Hiroyuki Inoue

Flora's Servant

Conductor

Andriy Yurkevych

Stage director

Vincent Boussard

Costume designer

Eri Nakamura

Tenor

Matteo Desole

Alfred Germont

Baritone

Gezim Myshketa

George Germont

Hitomi Kaga

Flora Bervoix

Kyosuke Kanayama

Gaston

Hiroyuki Narita

The Baron Douphol

Kei Yonashiro

The Marquis of Obigny

Kubota Masumi

The doctor Grenvil

Mezzo-soprano

Kyoko Moriyama

Annina

Masahiro Nakagawa

Giuseppe

Yuichi Chiba

Commissioner

New National Theatre Tokyo

Others

New National Theatre Chorus

Orchestra

Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra

Italian

La Traviata -  (La traviata)

Tokyo

Japan

New National Theatre

Opera Palace

La traviata Verdi

Public

La traviata

English

Japanese

Approved

New National Theatre, May 10, 2015 Performed by Verdi "La Traviata" (new production) Conducted by: Yves Abel Director / Costume: Vincent Boussard Art: Vincent Boussard Lighting: Guido Levi Movement Director: Helge Letonia Violetta : Bernalda Bobro Alfredo: Antonio Pauli Germont: Alfredo Daza Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Extracts from "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi 10 May 2015 at New National Theater, Tokyo Conductor: Yves Abel Producion & Costume Design: Vincent Boussard Set Design: Vincent Lemaire Lighting Design: Guido Levi Movement Director: Helge Letonja Violetta: Bernarda Bobro Alfredo Germont: Antonio Poli Giorgio Germont: Alfredo Daza Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

"La traviata" is set in the world of Parisian high society. This popular opera tells the story of the courtesan, Violetta Valéry: her loves and her sad fate. It is based on the dramatic adaptation of the romantic novel, "La Dame aux Camélias" by Alexandre DUMAS fils, modeled by the author on the high-class mistress, Marie Duplessis. Giuseppe VERDI then took the story, making its heroine a contemporary woman, and writing an innovative opera in which he raised the role of the music itself to that of expressing the story's emotions. Starting with "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", which has become a well-known, staple tune of gala concerts, the work features numerous other famous songs, such as Violetta's most technically demanding aria, "Ah, fors'è lui-sempre libera", in the prelude foretelling tragedy, and Germont's "Di Provenza il mar, il suol".

The director, Vincent BOUSSARD, is noted for sophisticated staging with an unerring eye for colour. His production of "La traviata" (first staged in 2015) displays that aesthetic sensibility. At the same time, he effectively holds up a mirror on the world to paint an imagined landscape, taking the theme of a woman's fate in the world of men. Upon curtain fall, we are left with the vivid picture of a woman who has lived her life with unwavering pride.

NAKAMURA Eri, whose performance in Madama Butterfly staged in December 2021 gave an ultimate impression to us, stars at the leading role Violetta. She will be partnered by Italian tenor Matteo DESOLE as Alfredo, who has played this role at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and among others. And Albanian bartion Gezim MYSHKETA will sing one of the notable baritone roles, Giorgio Germont. Andriy YURKEVYCH will come back to the orchestra pit at Opera Palace.

La traviata by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Vincent Boussard,, Conductor Andriy Yurkevych, New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan

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