La traviata at Wiener Staatsoper GmbH

La Traviata (Italian for "the of the way lost") by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave (libretto) based on the novel the Lady of the camellias (1848), the author Alexandre Dumas the younger had brought in February 1852 as acting on the stage. The Opera was premiered on March 6, 1853, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and initially fell through at the audience before she became one of the most successful operas of musical history revised.

As previously in Rigoletto and Il trovatore Verdi was an outlaw of the society and rejected person at the Centre of the action. An opera about a noble prostitute (then Mistress), that even this very realistic perish on the pulmonary tuberculosis, was an unprecedented innovation for the time.