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Soprano Angel Blue’s Violetta didn’t seem as tragic as we’re used to seeing in Verdi’s masterwork and maybe that's right. She’s lived life on her own terms and if she’s dying of tuberculosis, well, c’est la vie. (After all, the source of the piece is French: the Alexandre Dumas fils “La Dame aux Camellias”).

It's been a big year for soprano Lisette Oropesa, with starring roles at major European houses. But in this country, it's something else entirely: She won the Richard Tucker Award and the Met's Beverly Sills Award. That was followed by a pair of name-above-the-title roles, her first at the Met: her role debut in Massenet's MANON and, this week, her house role debut as Verdi's Violetta in LA TRAVIATA.

Violetta Valry is a courtesan who can have everything she desires except lasting happiness. Love is found, lost, and reclaimed too late in Verdi's most cherished opera.

Watch a preview of Tony Award–winning director Michael Mayer's new production of Verdi's “La Traviata,” starring Diana Damrau and conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Opens December 4, 2018.

San Francisco Opera presents Verdi's La Traviata in ten performances at the War Memorial Opera House, September 23 through October 17. Company Music DirectorNicola Luisotti leads an international cast featuring three artists making their Company debuts in leading roles: Romanian soprano Aurelia Florian as Violetta Val ry, Brazilian tenor Atalla Ayan as Alfredo Germont and Polish baritone Artur Rucinski as Giorgio Germont.

La Traviata premiered at Venice's Teatro la Fenice in 1853, and survived a notoriously unsuccessful opening night to become one of the best-loved operas in the repertoire.

La Traviata premiered at Venice's Teatro la Fenice in 1853, and survived a notoriously unsuccessful opening night to become one of the best-loved operas in the repertoire.

General and Artistic Director Michael Egel and the Board of Directors have announced casting for the operas of the 42nd Summer Festival Season. The three, full-scale grand operas will be presented in 15 performances between June 27 and July 20, 2014 at the Blank Performing Arts Center in Indianola Iowa. A fourth production will run for 3 performances on July 10 and 19 at the newly renovated Des Moines Social Club in Des Moines as part of the company's newly-minted 2nd Stages Series. The Summer Festival Season repertory includes the return of a timeless operatic classic paired with two operas which will be company premieres - the first is a modern masterpiece and the second is a sparkling farce by opera's greatest comedic composer, Rossini. It's truly a season for everyone from first-time opera-goers to lifelong devotees highlighted by Des Moines Metro Opera's exceptional attention to details, including casting some of the most remarkable vocal talent in America today.

On October 17, Verdi's universally loved La Traviata returns to Seattle Opera for the first time in 13 years. The company will present nine performances, with two spectacular casts, through October 31.

Director Ivo van Hove is set to oversee a production of Lillian Hellman's THE LITTLE FOXES in 2010. The production is expected to star Broadway's Elizabeth Marvel, most recently off the revival of Top Girls. THE LITTLE FOXES will be produced in full scale by the New York Theatre Workshop following a reading they presented earlier this year.

On October 17, Verdi's universally loved La Traviata returns to Seattle Opera for the first time in 13 years. The company will present nine performances, with two spectacular casts, through October 31.

On October 17, Verdi's universally loved La Traviata returns to Seattle Opera for the first time in 13 years. The company will present nine performances, with two spectacular casts, through October 31.

West End star Ruthie Henshall, will star in Marguerite, the new musical by Michel Legrand (Amour, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg

Famed musical thatre actress, Ruthie Henshall, will star in Boubill and Schonberg's new musical MARAGUERITE.