Name: La Traviata
Start: 2017-07-04
End: 2017-07-04
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Joyce El-Khoury

Violetta Valery

Ekaterina Bakanova

Corinne Winters

Tenor

Sergey Romanovsky

Alfred Germont

Atalla Ayan

Liparit Avetisyan

Baritone

Artur Rucinski

George Germont

Nicola Alaimo

George Petean

Conductor

Daniele Rustioni

Maurizio Benini

Stage director

Richard Eyre

Set designer

Bob Crowley

Lighting designer

Jean Kalman

Angela Simkin

Flora Bervoix

Mezzo-soprano

Elizabeth Sikora

Annina

Sarah Pring

Neil Gillespie

Giuseppe

Bass

Jeremy White

The Marquis of Obigny

Yuriy Yurchuk

The Baron Douphol

Gyula Nagy

Samuel Sakker

Gaston

David Junghoon Kim

David Shipley

The doctor Grenvil

Royal Opera House

Assistant Stage Director

Pedro Ribeiro

Italian

La Traviata -  (La traviata)

London

United Kingdom

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La traviata

English

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Saimir Pirgu, Venera Gimadieva and The Royal Opera Chorus sing La traviata's famous drinking song. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/traviata

‘A toast to the pleasures of life!’ – so sings Violetta, her new admirer Alfredo and her party guests in the opening scene of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. But beneath the surface glamour of Violetta’s Parisian life run darker undercurrents: her doomed love for Alfredo and the tensions the lovers encounter when they break society’s conventions. La traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas fils’s play La Dame aux camélias, is one of Verdi’s most popular operas, combining drama, profound emotion and wonderful melodies.

Richard Eyre’s classic production conveys the indulgent social whirl of 19th-century Paris. It provides a vivid setting for Verdi’s tuneful score, which includes such favourites as Violetta’s introspective ‘Ah fors’è lui’ and ecstatic ‘Sempre libera’; the duet ‘Pura siccome un angelo’ as Giorgio Germont begs Violetta to leave Alfredo; and ‘Parigi, o cara’, in which the lovers poignantly imagine a life that will never be theirs. The role of Violetta (the ‘fallen woman’ of the title) is one of Verdi’s most complex and enduring characters.

La traviata - Brindisi aka The Drinking Song (The Royal Opera)

La traviata by Verdi, Tue 04 Jul 2017, From (2017/2017), Directed by Richard Eyre,, Conductor Daniele Rustioni, Maurizio Benini, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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