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La Traviata

Verdi

25 June – 04 July 2023

- All Paris is celebrating. It's Carnival…
- But in this general jubilation, how many wretches suffer !

La Traviata

The prelude to La Traviata evokes a muted, discreet pulse, like the secret rhythm of a heart having difficulty beating. Perhaps this heart is Violetta Valéry's. When the curtain rises, she knows she is going to die, condemned by phthisis. She has chosen to let herself disappear in a whirlwind of frivolous parties and meaningless pleasures. Her encounter with Alfredo, an idealistic young man in love, will trouble her until she is convinced to give love one last chance.

The portrait of this courtesan - an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas fils' La Dame aux camélias - reveals all of Verdi's humanism. Also some of his most heart-rending singing. It has been said that it takes several voices to sing Violetta. Because the traviata - literally, the wayward woman - has several lives: the swirling vocal fireworks in Act I, the deep quiet of a secluded life in the countryside in Act II, and then sacrifice, illness, joy and finally death...

La Traviata also paints a vitriolic portrait of its times: if Violetta places love above all else, to the point of sacrificing herself to save the Germonts' honour, her sacrifice makes the hypocrisy and baseness of the materialistic bourgeoisie only more apparent. La Traviata's era saw the end of the 1848 revolutions. The society that Verdi describes now lives under surveillance, enjoying petty pleasures and large, dreary parties... No doubt Violetta's song was too free and too fiery for this narrow world: she had to pay with her life.

This Traviata marks the revival of a landmark production: Jean-François Sivadier's staging, created at the International Festival of Lyric Art in Aix-en-Provence in 2011. In this version, imagined by a genuine master of the theatre and a great lover of opera, Violetta's destiny seems to merge with that of a performer blazing with her last fires on stage before bidding an unforgettable farewell under a fine golden rain. This production is driven by a new generation of performers injecting new life into the production.

 

Calendar

  • Sun. 25 June 2023
    15:00
    Opéra national de Lorraine
  • Tue. 27 June 2023
    19:30
    Opéra national de Lorraine
  • Thu. 29 June 2023
    19:30
    Opéra national de Lorraine
  • Sat. 01 July 2023
    19:30
    Opéra national de Lorraine
  • Tue. 04 July 2023
    19:30
    Opéra national de Lorraine

Information

Due to the summer sound and light show on Place Stanislas and in order to ensure the quality of the show, the performances of La Traviata initially scheduled for 8 pm will start at 7.30 pm!

Duration
2h40 with interval

Prices
€ 5 - 75

Performance in Italian with French surtitles

Introduction to the performance
45 minutes before the start of the performance (free of charge, upon presentation of ticket)
Duration approx. 20 minutes

The performance  of June 25 includes a Sunday workshop. For more information, click here.

Cast

La Traviata, opera in four parts

First performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853


Delegated production for the revival

Opéra national de Lorraine

Coproduction

Opéra de Rouen Normandie

Original Coproduction

Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra de Dijon and Théâtre de Caen


Libretto

Francesco Maria Piave based on the novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Music

Giuseppe Verdi


Conductor

Marta Gardolińska

Opéra national de Lorraine Orchestra

Choir director

Guillaume Fauchère

Opéra national de Lorraine Chorus

Assistant to the musical direction

William Le Sage


Stage director

Jean-François Sivadier

Set design

Alexandre de Dardel

Costumes

Virginie Gervaise

Lighting

Philippe Berthomé

Make-up and hair

Cécile Kretschmar

Choreography

Johanne Saunier

Assistant to the director

Véronique Timsit


Violetta Valéry

Enkeleda Kamani

Flora Bervoix

Marine Chagnon

Annina

Majdouline Zerari

Alfredo Germont

Mario Rojas

Giorgio Germont

Gezim Myshketa

Gastone, viscount of Letorières

Grégoire Mour

Baron Douphol

Yoann Dubruque

Marquis d’Obigny

Jérémie Brocard

Docteur Grenvil

Jean-Vincent Blot

Commission agent

Benjamin Colin

Flora's domestic

Marco Gemini

 Giuseppe

Ill Ju Lee

Comedian

Florian Sietzen

See also