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Company

Singer

Soprano

Kristina Mkhitaryan

Violetta Valery

Tenor

Liparit Avetisyan

Alfred Germont

Baritone

Christoph Pohl

George Germont

Juan Jesús Rodríguez

Mezzo-soprano

Gabrielė Kupšytė

Flora Bervoix

Michael Gibson

Gaston

Josef Jeongmeen Ahn

The Baron Douphol

Bass

Jeremy White

The Marquis of Obigny

Renata Skarelytë

Annina

Blaise Malaba

The doctor Grenvil

London

United Kingdom

Royal Opera House

Keri-Lynn Wilson

Conductor

Stage director

Richard Eyre

Set designer

Bob Crowley

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Jean Kalman

Choreographer

Jane Gibson

Main Stage

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Italian

La traviata

La traviata Verdi

Public

Opera

English

Approved

Richard Eyre's beautiful production provides the perfect setting for Verdi's opera about a courtesan who sacrifices all for love. Buy your tickets now: https...

Trailer:  La traviata

The Royal Opera House is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Richard Eyre’s production of La traviata. Much admired for its sets, movement and direction it has been revived nearly every season since its unveiling in 1994. This round of nineteen performances runs into late March, with five Violettas, eight Germonts (four each of père et fils), and three conductors. Verdi’s score apart, the venerable production will be the main constant. So it’s as well that score and production are indestructible, and this first cast did both justice. The leads varied from routinely excellent to occasionally sublime, and there was that surprisingly large number of small named characters in Traviata, made much easier to cast by the existence of the ROH’s Jette Parker Young Artists’ Programme contributing three members, including the excellent Stephanie Wake-Edwards as Flora.

“Libiam!” Raising a glass to 25 years of Covent Garden's glorious Traviata

A classic production of Verdi's tragic opera returns with a roster of outstanding sopranos

La Traviata, Royal Opera House

If it's not broke, don't fix it!" Most clichés gain their status through being true, but that one is honoured in the breach as often as in its application, the desire to sell something new (even if it isn't really) as addictive to the vendor as it is to the buyer. Not always though.

"25 years of Richard Eyre's La Traviata" is emblazoned (in gold, no less) on the cast list and the programme compiles a Who's Who of opera stars who have sung the roles in that quarter century - it was staged here as recently as January after all!

So you've every right to expect something good, something slick, something that can fill hundreds of seats on wet Tuesday night a week before Christmas. And that's what you get.

BWW Review: LA TRAVIATA, Royal Opera House

Apart from Oropesa’s Violetta, the superb tenor Liparit Avetisyan gives a convincing performance as the passionate Alfredo, a role that is rarely achieved in operatic productions. The German baritone Christian Gerhaher in the role of Giorgio Germont, the man responsible for the break-up, also offers an impressive performance. The entire leading cast as well as the rest of the cast secured the narrative’s realism that is so brilliantly embedded in its musical fabric, which translates on stage in a manner that even those not musically trained, gain a satisfying musical and dramatic experience. The stamp of the director of this revival, Pedro Ruibeiro, is much in evidence. The dramatic performance, highlighting the conflict between father-son, the shift in Germont’s attitude towards Violetta, the ‘saintly courtesan’, is made clear in their first encounter in Act II. His hard tone and demeanour towards this fallen reveal early signs of softening and gestures of respect. The social norms layered with hypocrisy are superbly probed musically and dramatically in that first encounter between the two. The dramatic tension is given momentary relief by the colourful and beautifully performed gypsy’s singing dancing and the matadors. They lighten up the atmosphere before the mood darkens.The evening, in its entirety, can be summed up as memorable

La Traviata

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The courtesan Violetta lives and breathes the glamour of Parisian high society, but she has never known love – until she meets Alfredo. Abandoning her hedonistic existence for a new life in the country, Violetta receives a surprise visit from Alfredo’s father, who exposes the cruelty of society’s double standards – and accelerates her tragic demise.

Giuseppe Verdi’s riches-to-rags opera has it all: from the intoxicating joy of the ‘Brindisi’ party chorus, to the hushed poignancy of the final act, where hope teeters on the edge of despair. Richard Eyre’s elegant production returns, conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson and staring Kristina Mkhitaryan as Violetta, Liparit Avetisyan as Alfredo and Christoph Pohl as Giorgio Germont.

The featured performance for the cinema screening on the 26 April is conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, and stars Pretty Yende as Violetta, Stephen Costello as Alfredo and Vladimir Stoyanov as Giorgio Germont.

La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, From Royal Opera House (2023/2023), Directed by Richard Eyre,, Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Royal Opera House

Keri-Lynn Wilson

Richard Eyre

Cast

Kristina Mkhitaryan

Liparit Avetisyan

Christoph Pohl

Juan Jesús Rodríguez

Gabrielė Kupšytė

Michael Gibson

Josef Jeongmeen Ahn

Jeremy White

Renata Skarelytë

Blaise Malaba

Crew

Bob Crowley

Bob Crowley

Jean Kalman

Jane Gibson

Ensemble

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Program, About & Synopsis

Reviews

Videos 2

Photos 8

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues 6