La traviata
From: Saturday, 2nd February 2013
To: Sunday, 3 March 2013
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Synopsis
Amongst the most popular of Verdi's operas, La traviata is the work of a master of the musical drama. Its perfumed arias and soaring choruses vividly depict the ravishingly decadent but glamorous world of Parisian high society as the background to a heart rending story of romantic happiness destroyed. Original book called La Dame aux Camelias.
Our Review:
3 February 2013
To be properly controversial a production needs to divide opinion down the middle, which is what English National Opera’s new staging of La traviata will achieve if my opening-night eavesdroppings are anything to go by. One voice was ecstatic, another outraged. I wish I felt as strongly either way.
The German director Peter Konwitschny fits snugly into ENO’s current fixation with European-style ‘director’s theatre’. His designer Johannes Leiacker’s set for Verdi’s lavish opera comprises a single chair, a stack of books and layer upon layer of vast red curtains which are gradually peeled aside like a dance of the seven scenic veils, and within this expressionistic environment the consumptive courtesan Violetta approaches her demise. Crimson drapes are symbolic on many levels, not least the sexual one of our heroine’s erotic allure; and once she has descended into wretchedness they (literally) fall aw...
Latest User Review
roberto - 20 February 2013:
what a bunch of curmudgeons! A Superb, captivating performance that had me spellbound. The time just flew by....
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Verdi (Music)
Francesco Maria Piave (Lyrics)
Dumas (Book)
English National Opera (Company)
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