La traviata by Verdi, pe 04 heinä 2025, Alkaen (2025/2025), Ohjannut Dieter Dorn, Musiikinjohto Jérémie Rhorer, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany

“The woman who has strayed from the right path” – that is Violetta Valéry, who leads a life between splendor and misery as a noble courtesan in Paris. Everything is just games and appearances, including love, until Alfredo Germont awakens true feelings in her. But happiness is a rare guest and only short-lived: Violetta, who suffers from consumption, is first humiliated and, after a final flicker of her vital strength, fades away. Only once did Giuseppe Verdi turn to a contemporary subject, the “Lady of the Camellias” by the Parisian author Alexandre Dumas the Younger. Dumas literary shaped this event, which is based on true events, both as a novel and as a play. Verdi invented music of great urgency that leaves plenty of room for the expression of emotions: joy and exuberance, lamentation and despair. The listener and viewer are even drawn into the action in order to take a direct part in Violetta's fate. As the last work of the so-called “Trilogia populare,” “Traviata,” which premiered in 1853 and was shown for the first time at Haus Unter den Linden in 1860, quickly became, after initial skepticism, a successful opera on an international scale. Dieter Dorn's production makes Violetta appear as a woman who is doomed to die from the start, but who rebels against her fate. In the end she simply disappeared, as if dissolved into nothingness.