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La Traviata
Opéra Bastille - from 21 January to 25 February 2024
La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Opéra Bastille - from 21 January to 25 February 2024
2h45 with 2 intervals
Language : Italian
Surtitle : French / English
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Opening night : 21 jan. 2024
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In few words:
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
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
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La Traviata
Opera in three acts (1853)
After Alexandre Dumas Fils, La Dame aux camélias
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Gallery
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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
01:10’
Video
Draw-me La Traviata
Understand the plot in 1 minute
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.
01:01’
Video
Imaginarie La Traviata
A repertoire work narrated in a visual poem born of popular culture
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, from november 25th to december 23th 2020 at the Opera Bastille
© Céline Gaille / hanslucas.com
Podcast
Opera word for word - La Traviata
Literary podcast evoking an opera and a stage director's vision
08’
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
000:50’
Video
Recipe of the day: La traviata
Ingredients of Simon Stone's stage production
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