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Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Stage director

Stage director (+3)

Götz Friedrich

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Frank Philipp Schlößmann

Costume designer

Klaus Bruns

Lighting designer

Ulrich Niepel

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Thomas Richter

Baritone (+1)

Michael Bakhtadze

Barone Douphol

Chorus

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Choreographer

Klaus Beelitz

Tenor (+2)

Chance Jonas-O'Toole

Gastone de Letorières

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Arianna Manganello

Flora Bervoix

Bass (+4)

Gerard Farreras

Dottore Grenvil

Tenor (+1)

Andrei Danilov

Alfredo Germont

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Karis Tucker

Soprano (+1)

Maria Vasilevskaya

Annina

Baritone (+4)

Stephen Marsh

Marchese d'Obigny

Tenor (+3)

Kangyoon Shine Lee

Giuseppe

Bass-baritone (+2)

Jared Werlein

Commissioner

Baritone (+5)

Thomas Lehman

Giorgio Germont

Soprano (+3)

Alexandra Oomens

Geon Kim

Baritone (+2)

Dean Murphy

Spoken (+1)

Alexander Hoffmann

Flora's Servant

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Dominic Limburg

Adela Zaharia

Violetta Valery

Baritone (+3)

Heiner Boßmeyer

Bogdan Baciu

Youngkwang Oh

Friedrich Praetorius

Giulio Cilona

Vitali Alekseenok

Nina Solodovnikova

Soprano

Rosa Feola

Elena Tsallagova

Amitai Pati

Andrei Bondarenko

Michael Dimovski

Bass (+1)

Holger Gerberding

Tenor

Attilio Glaser

Oreste Cosimo

Baritone

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Bass-baritone (+4)

Padraic Rowan

Violetta Valery, living in kept splendour at the expense of Baron Douphol, has apparently recovered from a serious illness. To celebrate, she throws a party where she meets and falls for Alfredo Germont. As their love for each other is frowned upon, they set up house outside of Paris. Alfredo’s father insists that she break with his son in order not to jeopardise the marriage prospects of Alfredo’s sister. Violetta accedes to his wish and cuts off relations. In a showdown at another party Violetta tries to convince Alfredo that she’s in love with the Baron, causing Alfredo to hurl his gambling winnings at her feet, calling them “fees for services rendered”. Soon afterwards, at the height of the Paris carnival, Violetta is on her deathbed. She receives Alfredo, who has heard from his father her real reason for leaving him. Violetta forgives him, gives him her blessing and dies.

Verdi’s only opera to be set in middle-class circles of mid-nineteenth-century Paris was based on “La dame aux camélias”, an acclaimed novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The novel referenced the death of Marie Duplessis, a 23-year-old courtesan, from TB on 3rd February 1847 as the occasion for a critical study of the Parisian demi-monde. Where Dumas’s main characters form part of a tight social network, Verdi and librettist Francesco Maria Piave eliminate anything that isn’t directly linked to the clashes between Violetta, Alfredo and father, Giorgio Germont. This drama of interior emotions focuses on the three stations on Violetta’a via: love, renunciation and death.

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