LA TRAVIATA at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

The plot of this sad history belongs to Alexander Dumas son, wrote two works of La Traviata (La traviata – fallen) Marguerite Gautier, with the real prototype for which Marie Duplessis, he knew, "novel (1848) and drama (1852); both called "Lady of the Camellias" that brought fame to the author. The grave of writer and Duplessis are next on one of Paris ' cemeteries and are a place of pilgrimage for lovers, who surrounded them in the same worship as Romeo and Juliet. However, there is a perception that, despite the success, for Dumas would be better if he first met Violeta Valerie, "traviatoj" by Verdi and Piave. Violetta is such a standard of character, so a bright personality that in comparison with her portrayal of Margaret Dumas pales.

In La Traviata F.m. Piave gave musical theater is a contemporary Chronicle, Verdi created a perfect image of the protagonist, "divine", as if he intended to translate all the charm of the prima donnas of the 19th century and at the same time very compelling female type, there will no longer be in operas by the composer. Violetta presents all the action and each character, which in turn is meant to illuminate it. With great mastery of Verdi was able to show three hypostasis of love the heroine's experience: the cult of freedom peculiar to this beauty, her passion for beloved finally self-sacrifice. Only heroines of Puccini would have such emotional power, but even then we will not see a combination of these three aspects, all of these three characters in one person, as if tempted to be performed in each of the actions.