La Traviata

What you will find

The director Davide Livermore, at his second Verdi title in May after Rigoletto, sets the tragedy of Violetta in a 1968 Paris during the years of protest. On the poster an excellent cast with the debut of the great talent of Nadine Sierra as Violetta, alongside her the return to the Maggio of a reference interpreter for the Verdi repertoire, Francesco Meli as Alfredo, one of the most congenial roles to him. With Nadine Sierra and Francesco Meli then there are two great and charismatic artists Leo Nucci and Plàcido Domingo who will alternate in the role of Germont. "Not to provoke - says Livermore - but to tell this story more closely, to develop the richness and modernity of Verdi's masterpiece and also the scandal it created in the society of that time, in 1853. This in total respect, word for word, note by note, of the libretto and of the score ". "Even the love between Violetta and Alfredo is equally strong and revolutionary" continues the director "is that of a young and beautiful prostitute, Violetta, who thanks to it embarks on a real path of personal redemption".

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