La Traviata at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Dates: (5/20/2016 - 6/29/2016 )
Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille |
Place de la Bastille
Paris,Île-de-France 75012
Phone: +33 (0)1 71 25 24 23
Running Time: 3h05 with 2 intervals
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"Farewell sweet, happy dreams of the past, the roses of my cheeks have already faded."
- La Traviata, Act III, scene 1
Verdi was looking for “una donna di prima forza” to bring his Traviata to life. Augusta Albertini, for example, had she been available. Or Rosina Penco, whose beauty, expressiveness and stage presence predestined her for the title role. However, detained in Rome, she too was unable to accept the offer. Who else then? In his villa in Sant'Agata, the composer no longer concealed his doubts as to the success of his new opera – a fear compounded by the fact that the Teatro La Fenice in Venice had little better to offer him than Fanny Salvini-Donatelli. Although no longer “in the flower of her youth” and even less “an ideal beauty,” the singer kindled enthusiasm thanks to her one redeeming feature: her voice. However, that would not suffice to avoid the fiasco Verdi foresaw.
Violetta requires not one voice, but a miraculous combination of three: firstly, a soprano coloratura, virtuoso and brilliant; in addition, a voice sufficiently vibrant and lyrical to convey the burden of the sacrifice imposed by her lover's father, and lastly, one possessing a sense of the heart-rending drama amid the dying flames of the consumptive heroine’s last instants. The tragic actress turned tightrope walker sways unsteadily on a flimsy cord stretched to snapping point. Having sung Lucia di Lammermoor at the Bastille, Sonya Yoncheva has already demonstrated all these qualities. Now, for the first time in Paris, she is portraying Verdi’s fallen woman.
- Francesco Maria Piave
- Giuseppe Verdi
Authors
Cast and Creative team for La Traviata at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Music
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto
Francesco Maria Piave
After Alexandre Dumas Fils, La Dame aux camélias
In italian
Conductor
Michele Mariotti
Director
Benoît Jacquot
Violetta Valery
Sonya Yoncheva
20 mai > 7 juin
Maria Agresta
11 > 29 juin
Flora Bervoix
Antoinette Dennefeld
Annina
Elisabeth Moussous
Alfredo Germont
Bryan Hymel
20 mai > 14 juin
Abdellah Lasri
17 > 29 juin
Giorgio Germont
Željko Lu?i?
20, 23, 26, 29 mai, 7, 11 juin
Simone Piazzola
1, 4, 14, 26,29 juin
Plácido Domingo
17, 20 juin
Gastone
Julien Dran
Il barone Douphol
Fabio Previati
Il marchese d'Obigny
Boris Grappe
Dottore Grenvil
Luc Bertin-Hugault
Giuseppe
Vincent Morell
Domestico
Marc Chapron
Commissionario
Andrea Nelli
Set design
Sylvain Chauvelot
Costume design
Christian Gasc
Lighting design
André Diot
Choreography
Philippe Giraudeau
Chorus master
José Luis Basso
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