LA TRAVIATA at The Met Coming to a Movie Theater Near You!

Star soprano Natalie Dessay takes the stage as Violetta Valéry, the tragic courtesan who sacrifices everything for love, opposite American tenor Matthew Polenzani as Alfredo Germont. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Giorgio Germont, Alfredo's father, who disapproves of Violetta's lifestyle but is moved by her plight. Fabio Luisi conducts Willy Decker's innovative, modern-dress staging of one of the most-loved operas of all time.

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"An enormous success... Willy Decker's grippingly spare, almost surreal new production of Verdi's Traviata has come back for this season as a vehicle for the soprano Natalie Dessay, who made a wrenching impression as the fatally ill courtesan. In the final act her performance of 'Addio, del passato,' Violetta's farewell to dreams of happy days past, was mellifluous and achingly real." -The New York Times

"Delivers style, sparkle, and stirring drama..." - Los Angeles Times

Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera

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