After the extraordinary success of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (presented this past March in Australia) comes a new opera-film collaboration between Opera di Roma and Rai Cultura.
Conceived by Maestro Daniele Gatti and director Mario Martone, it’s a sumptuous new take on Verdi’s masterpiece, based on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, with costumes by Anna Biagiottiand cinematography by Pasquale Mari.
Fast-rising soprano Lisette Oropesa stars as Violetta Valéry, a courtesan who lives for pleasure. When she meets Alfredo (Saimir Pirgu) it’s true love, but their happiness is cut short at this insistence of his father, Germant (Roberto Frontali). Verdi’s sublime score contains some of his most inspired arias and duets, including Violetta’s introspective Ah fors’è lui and hedonistic Sempre libera, Violetta and Germont’s poignant Act II encounter and Alfredo and Violetta’s Parigi, o cara, in which they dream of a happy future.
La Traviata screens in cinemas nationally 7, 8 and 9 August
Enter now for your chance to win one of five double passes to a screening of La Traviata, thanks to Palace Opera & Ballet.
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/competitions/win-tickets-to-a-screening-of-verdis-la-traviata/
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