Name: La Traviata
Start: 2005-03-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2005-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Real

Organization

Soprano

Norah Amsellem

Violetta Valery

Inva Mula

Tenor

José Bros

Alfred Germont

Raúl Hernandez

Baritone

Renato Bruson

George Germont

Vladimir Stoyanov

Angel Rodríguez

Gaston

Juan Tomás Martínez

The Baron Douphol

Bass

Marco Moncloa

The Marquis of Obigny

Lorenzo Muzzi

The doctor Grenvil

Conductor

Jesús López-Cobos

Stage director

Pier Luigi Pizzi

Set designer

Costume designer

Itxaro Mentxaka

Flora Bervoix

Mezzo-soprano

María Espada

Annina

Choreographer

Teatro Real de Madrid

La Traviata -  (La traviata)

Madrid

Spain

Teatro Real

In this cinema-inspired and highly poetic staging, Pier Luigi Pizzi brings us Verdi’s great drama to the salons and bedrooms of 1940s Paris. Norah Amsellem, in her magnificent performance as Violetta, is accompanied by José Bros as Alfredo and the great Renato Bruson in the role of Germont, under the masterly baton of Jesús López Cobos.

La traviata is the third and last opera in the 'popular trilogy’ (together with Rigoletto and Il trovatore), which marked the start of Giuseppe Verdi’s artistic maturity, and is with good reason one of his most beloved works. It is based on a famous novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias, telling the sad story of Marie Duplessis, the celebrated Parisian courtesan who died of that quintessentially Romantic disease, tuberculosis. La Traviata was the first opera to tell the unhappy story of a woman brought down by the hypocrisy of bourgeois morality, with an unprecedented level of realism. Violetta Valéry discovers true love with the young Alfredo Germont, but is forced to give him up at the request of his father, Giorgio Germont.

Verdi drew upon his own relationship with Giuseppina Strepponi, his future wife and loyal supporter, in this work. Its debut, on March 6, 1853 at La Fenice in Venice, was a failure, largely due to presenting scenes from ordinary life rather than stories about aristocrats and rulers. In this production, which opened the 2003-2004 opera season to great acclaim, Pier Luigi Pizzi set the work in Nazi-occupied Paris, where the characters are living from day to day in a permanent state of war, heightening their passion, the only thing they can hold onto.

La Traviata by Verdi from Teatro Real, performed at Teatro Real, Madrid, 2006. Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, conductor Jesús López Cobos. Starring Norah Amsellem (Violetta), José Bros (Alfredo) and Renato Bruson (Germont). Performance Language Italian.

Public

La traviata

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Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

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hornist

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Contrabassist

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Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

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Dramaturge

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Makeup artist

Executive producer

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Choir

Orchestra

Poet

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Writing and performance

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Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Singer

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Contralto

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Norah Amsellem as Violetta leads a cast of outstanding talent in Pier Luigi Pizzi's beautiful production.

La traviata Verdi

La traviata by Verdi, Wed 23 Mar 2005, From (2005/2005), Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi,, Conductor Jesús López-Cobos, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain

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