Saturday, March 3 – Palais de l’Europe / Francis Palmero Theater at 8:30 PM
Conductor: Paul-Emmanuel Thomas
La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed on March 6, 1853, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux camélias.
This opera became one of the most performed works in opera houses worldwide in the 20th century.
A major work of the lyric repertoire endowed with a famous romantic prelude, it is part of the renowned “trilogy” along with Rigoletto and Il trovatore that brought international fame to Verdi.
Literally “the fallen woman,” she who has strayed from the well-trodden path of social conventions and bourgeois hypocrisies, La Traviata is the courtesan who both frightened and fascinated the 19th century.
Verdi produced the ultimate melodrama, that of the courtesan who is a victim of true love.
