Los Angeles Opera - La Traviata
Finished Apr 27
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Verdi's heartbreaking classic returns in this sumptuous new production
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Love me Alfredo, as I love you
Love me Alfredo, as I love you
Finished Apr 27
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Verdi's heartbreaking classic returns in this sumptuous new production
Finished Apr 27
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Verdi's heartbreaking classic returns in this sumptuous new production
One of the very best in the repertoire, Verdi's La Traviata is a sweeping love story set against the backdrop of decadent Paris high society where the celebrated courtesan Violetta eschews her wealthy suitors for the simple life with poor Alfredo. In this sumptuous production courtesy of the San Francisco Opera, our heroine is portrayed by Rachel Willis-Sorenson, opposite Liparit Avetisyan as her besotted suitor.
What is the story?
As one of the most beautiful courtesans of Paris, the alluring Violetta has many admirers but has let none of her wealthy suitors near her heart, preferring their generosity with their wallets to their baser attentions. It is in this world she meets Alfredo, a handsome yet penniless member of the bourgeois who wins her love and whisks her away to a countryside idyll in the hope of escaping her past life. Can their passion survive the reality of poverty, reputation and illness, or will everything they have fought to flee overwhelm the strongest emotion of them all?
Margot Szalay
La Traviata