La traviata (Italian: The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas fils, which he adapted from his own 1848 novel. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character.
It was first performed on 6 March 1853 at La Fenice opera house in Venice. Piave and Verdi wanted to follow Dumas in giving the opera a contemporary setting, but the authorities at La Fenice insisted that it be set in the past, "c. 1700". It was not until the 1880s that the composer's and librettist's original wishes were carried out and "realistic" productions were staged. La traviata has become immensely popular and is among the most frequently performed of all operas.
Giuseppe Verdi
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Verdi sees The Lady of the Camellias play
Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi visited Paris from late 1851 and into March 1852. In February the couple attended a performance of Alexander Dumas fils's The Lady of the Camellias. As a result of this, Verdi's biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz reports, the composer immediately began to compose music for what would later become La traviata. However, Julian Budden notes that Verdi had probably read the Dumas novel some time before, and, after seeing the play and returning to Italy, "he was already setting up an ideal operatic cast for it in his mind", shown by his dealings with La Fenice.
Marina Rebeka, Violetta Valéry (soprano)
Thomas Hampson, Giorgio Germont (baritone)
Francesco Demuro, Alfredo Germont (tenor)
Sharon Carty, Flora Bervoix (mezzosoprano)
Keri-Lynn Wilson, conductor
NDR Radiophilharmonie * Recorded at the NDR Klassik Open Air Festival, July 23rd, 2016, Maschpark Hannover Germany
Thomas Hampson, Giorgio Germont (baritone)
Francesco Demuro, Alfredo Germont (tenor)
Sharon Carty, Flora Bervoix (mezzosoprano)
Keri-Lynn Wilson, conductor
NDR Radiophilharmonie * Recorded at the NDR Klassik Open Air Festival, July 23rd, 2016, Maschpark Hannover Germany
| Role |
Premiere 6 March 1854 | Voice type |
| Violetta Valéry |
A Courtesan | Soprano |
| Alfredo Germont |
A young provincial bourgeois | Tenor |
| Giorgio Germont, |
Alfredo's father | Baritone |
| Flora Bervoix, | Violetta's friend | Mezzo-Soprano |
| Annina, | Violetta's maid | Soprano |
| Gastone de Letorières | Alfredo's friend | Tenor |
| Barone Douphol | Violetta's lover, a rival of Alfredo | Baritone |
| Marchese d'Obigny | Marchese d'Obigny | Bass |
| Dottore Grenvil | Dottore Grenvil | Bass |
| Giuseppe | Violetta's servant | Tenor |
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