San Francisco Opera broadcasts continue on Classical 90.5 at noon this Saturday, October 4, with a performance of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The opera is based on La dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La Traviata literally means "The Fallen Woman" or The Woman Who Strayed." The opera was originally entitled Violetta, after the main character. The performance will be sung in Italian and run approximately three hours. Nicola Luisotti conducts.
Love, sacrifice and redemption: the dazzling heroine of La Traviata embodies all three in one of opera’s most beloved stories. The story of Violetta Valéry—a Parisian courtesan who makes the fatal mistake of falling in love—has defined romantic tragedy since 1848 when the Dumás novel that inspired Verdi appeared. Verdi’s opera paints a picture of a glittering Second Empire Paris, the serenity of Violetta’s country estate and the heroine’s fate on a cold, pre-Lenten morning.
THE CAST
Violetta Valéry: Nicole Cabell
Alfredo Germont: Stephen Costello
Giorgio Germont: Vladimir Stoyanov
Flora Bervoix: Zanda Svede
Baron Doupohol: Dale Travis
Marquis D'Obigny: Hadleigh Adams
Doctor Grenvil: Andrew Craig Brown
Annina: Erin Johnson
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