La Traviata

by Giuseppe Verdi

Shanghai Opera
Shanghai Grand Theatre
http://www.shanghaiopera.com.cn

Shanghai Opera
  • March 2017
    16
    Thursday
    19:15 > 22:15
    3 hours

The story happens on a cruise liner “White La Traviata” travelling from Shanghai to France in the year of the 1920s. Alfredo Germont, a young bourgeois from a provincial family who has long adored Violetta from afar. Gastone, Alfredo’s friend, tells Violetta that Alfredo loves her, and that while she was ill, he came to her house every day. Alfredo joins them, admitting the truth of Gastone's remarks. A year later on the “White La Traviata”, Alfredo finally wins Violetta’s heart and they live together happily. To prove his love, Alfredo telegraphs his father Giorgio Germont that he will give all bequests to Violetta. Giorgio Germont is very anxious. He meets Violetta when the cruise liner stops at Casablanca and demands that she break off her relationship with his son for the sake of his family, since he reveals that Violetta's relationship with Alfredo has threatened his daughter's engagement because of Violetta's reputation. She responds that she cannot end the relationship because she loves him so much, but Giorgio pleads with her for the sake of his family. With growing remorse, she finally agrees. Violetta pretends to fall in love with Baron Douphol and breaks up with Alfredo. Furiously, Alfredo humiliates and denounces Violetta in front of the guests, then leaves the cruise liner with his father. Six months passed, “White La Traviata” is back to Paris. Regretting what he has done, Giorgio tells his son that Violetta has made much sacrifice for him and his sister. He sends his son to see Violetta on the cruise liner. But it’s too late. Violetta knows that she will not live long since her tuberculosis has worsened. After singing a duet with Alfredo, Violetta suddenly revives, exclaiming that the pain and discomfort have left her. A moment later, she dies in Alfredo's arms.

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La Traviata

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Press & Reviews

La Provincia
G.GARCÍA-ALCALDE
Estreno de ‘La Traviata’
This review refers to La Traviata at Opera Las Palmas.
La joven soprano inglesa Jessica Pratt, figura internacional muy admirada en Las Palmas, compone el personaje de Violeta con una hermosa voz lírica que frasea larga y desahogadamente, apiana con exquisita sensibilidad y luce en las frases más brillantes extensión y poder sin límites. Es la suya una creación muy pensada en los cuatro registros expresivos del personaje: la alegre frivolidad de los salones parisinos, la intensidad de su amor por Alfredo, la triste grandeza de la renuncia y, finalmente, el paletismo de la muerte. Construyendo siempre con perfección este personaje inmortal, la delicadeza de los filados y la deslumbrante luz solar de los agudos fortíssimo polarizan las riquezas de una gran voz y excelente intérprete.
Opera Actual
Cayetano SÁNCHEZ
Una 'Traviata' con un trío memorable
This review refers to La Traviata at Opera Las Palmas.
Jessica Pratt se ha convertido en una habitual de las temporadas grancanarias, y es de desear que lo siga siendo en adelante: estuvo maravillosa en todos los aspectos gracias a su bello timbre y a su dominio de la coloratura
Platea Magazine
Javier del Olivo
'La traviata' en Las Palmas con Jessica Pratt, Celso Albelo y Ludovic Tézier
This review refers to La Traviata at Opera Las Palmas.
¡Y qué gran protagonista fue Jessica Pratt! Muchos creían que, dada su trayectoria belcantista, Violetta sería un papel en el que brillaría en el primer acto para luego decaer. No fue así en ningún momento. Además de ser la dueña absoluta, dramáticamente hablando, de la representación, la soprano británico-australiana defendió casi sin fisuras el maravilloso segundo acto (estupendo su dúo con Tézier) y estuvo tremendamente convincente en el tercero. Sobra decir que no tuvo ninguna dificultad en las endiabladas coloraturas y toda la escritura lírica que culmina con el bellísimo Sempre libera. Pero en los momentos más dramáticos estuvo segura, con un dominio de su voz sin fisuras. Su potencia vocal y su amplia proyección brillaron también el canto más en piano, pero siempre perfectamente audible. Estupendo trabajo.

The Composition

La Traviata

Libretto written in italian by Francesco Maria Piave, was first premiered on a Sunday on March 06 of 1853

Giuseppe Verdi

Short biography of the composer
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer. Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him, becoming one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history. In his early operas Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi however did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893). His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, and the bicentenary of his birth in 2013 was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.

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