Cast:
Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta)
Natascha Petrinsky
(Flora)
Tiziana
Tramonti (Annina)
Ramón Vargas (Alfredo Germont)
Roberto Frontali
(Giorgio Germont)
Enrico Cossutta (Gastone)
Alessandro Paliaga (Barone Douphol)
Piero Terranova (Marchese d'Obigny)
Luigi Roni (Dottor Grenvil)
Nicola Pamio (Giuseppe)
Giuseppe Nicodemo
(Domestico)
Ernesto Panariello (Commissionario).
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
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La
Traviata, music by Giuseppi
Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria
Piave is based on The Lady of the
Camelias. It was first performed
at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice,
March 1853. Courtesan Violetta
Valéry meets a new admirer, Alfredo
Germont who confesses his love.
Trouble intrudes with Alfredo's
father who demands she renounce his
son since the scandal of Alfredo's
affair with her has threatened his
daughter's engagement. Violetta
resists but eventually agrees. Back
in Paris, Alfredo denounces his
former love cruelly and Douphol
challenges him to a duel. Six months
later Violetta has not long to live.
Eventually, Alfredo learns the truth
and is on his way to beg her pardon.
But it’s too late and she dies in
his arms. The title La Traviata
means literally “The Woman Who
Strayed”, or “The Fallen One”.
Particularly worth noting in the
cast is Angela Gheorghiu’s La Scala
debut as Violetta. |
