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    La Traviata

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Opéra Bastille - from 21 January to 25 February 2024

    On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m

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La Traviata

Opéra Bastille - from 21 January to 25 February 2024

On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m

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La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi

On sale 19 September 2023 from 12 p.m

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Opéra Bastille - from 21 January to 25 February 2024

2h45 with 2 intervals

Language : Italian

Surtitle : French / English

  • Opening night : 21 jan. 2024

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Who is La Traviata? For Australian director Simon Stone, whose talent for updating the classics is well-known, Violetta is not the demi-mondaine who sells her body, as in Alexandre Dumas fils La Dame aux camélias, the inspiration for Verdi's opera. She is a social network star who markets her image and her digital advice with posts, selfies and stories. Alas! This hyper-connected world does not prevent the beauty, as in the 19th century, from having to sacrifice her love for Alfredo on the altar of social conventions. This contemporary reading is in keeping with Verdi's intentions. Whilst composing a feverish and virtuoso score, the composer criticises the brutality of a society of appearances, a machine that crushes individualities. Especially in the case of women aspiring to be free: isn't “Sempre libera”, Violetta's most famous aria, the banner of this opera?

CHARACTERS

Violetta Valery: A Parisian demimondaine
Alfredo Germont: A young bourgeois from a provincial family, Violetta’s lover
Giorgio Germont: Alfredo’s father
Flora Bervoix: Violetta’s friend
Annina: Violetta’s maid
Le baron Douphol: Violetta’s protector
Le marquis d’Obigny: Flora’s lover
Gaston de Letorières: Alfredo’s friend
Doctor Grenv: Violetta’s doctor  
  • Opening
  • First Part 35 mn
  • Intermission 20 mn
  • Second part 60 mn
  • intermission 20 mn
  • Third Part 30 mn
  • End

Media coverage

  • In tune with the times, Simon Stone's new “Traviata” refreshes the myth by riding the trend of social media.

    Télérama, 2019
  • Costumes, lights and videos magnify Simon Stone's stage direction.

    Resmusica, 2019
  • Simon Stone’s proposal is one of great loyalty to La Traviata, which he reinstates in our daily life as Verdi had done when creating the work in 1853.

    Resmusica, 2019
  • A Traviata in the light of social networks (...), such is Simon Stone's bold but successful move.

    Artistik Rezo, 2019
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Audio clips

La Traviata (Saison 18/19)- Acte I - Ludovic Tézier

La Traviata (Saison 18/19)- Acte I - Ermonela Jaho, Charles Castronovo

La Traviata (Saison18/19)- Acte III - Jean‑François Borras (Alfredo) et Aleksandra Kurzak (Violetta)

La Traviata (Saison18/19) - Acte III - Aleksandra Kurzak (Violetta)

Backstage

  • Draw-me La Traviata

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    Draw-me La Traviata

  • Imaginarie La Traviata

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    Imaginarie La Traviata

  • Opera word for word - La Traviata

    Podcast

    Opera word for word - La Traviata

  • Recipe of the day: La traviata

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    Recipe of the day: La traviata

Draw-me La Traviata

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Draw-me La Traviata

Understand the plot in 1 minute

By Octave

Beginning his opera with a prelude for strings of unprecedented economy of means, in 1853, Verdi affirmed his intention of defying conventions and norms. This is not the least radical aspect of his “Traviata”, which implacably strips bare the violence of a society that promotes worldly pleasures only to sacrifice an innocent woman on the altar of bourgeois morality.

Imaginarie La Traviata

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Imaginarie La Traviata

A repertoire work narrated in a visual poem born of popular culture

By Marc de Pierrefeu

La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, from november 25th to december 23th 2020 at the Opera Bastille  

© Céline Gaille / hanslucas.com

Opera word for word - La Traviata

Podcast

Opera word for word - La Traviata

Literary podcast evoking an opera and a stage director's vision

08’

By Benoit Maubrey, Marion Mirande

Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata in Simon Stone's production, in the words of Lolita Pille, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Louis Aragon, Joy Sorman  

Copyright :

  • Lolita Pille, Hell, © Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2002
  • Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Les heureux et les damnés, traduction de l’américain par Louise Servicen, © Editions Gallimard, 1964
  • Louis Aragon, Aurélien, © Editions Gallimard, 1944
  • Joy Sorman, Sciences de la vie, © Seuil, 2017

Recipe of the day: La traviata

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Recipe of the day: La traviata

Ingredients of Simon Stone's stage production

By Octave

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