LA TRAVIATA / Opera in Cinema November 1, 2009
Tucson, Arizona
LA TRAVIATA, music by Giuseppi Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, is based on the novel The Lady of the Camelias by Alexandre Dumas. It was first performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, March 1853.
Courtesan Violetta Valéry meets a new admirer, Alfredo Germont who confesses his love. Trouble intrudes with Alfredo's father who demands she renounce his son since the scandal of Alfredo's affair with her has threatened his daughter's engagement. Violetta resists but eventually agrees. Back in Paris, Alfredo denounces his former love cruelly and Douphol challenges him to a duel. Six months later Violetta has not long to live. Eventually, Alfredo learns the truth and is on his way to beg her pardon. But it’s too late and she dies in his arms.
This classic tale of doomed romance has also inspired various versions of the film CAMILLE (based on the same novel by Dumas).
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