LA Opera on Air broadcasts return to Classical 90.5 at noon this Saturday, July 18, with a performance of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, set to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The story was based on La dame aux Camélias, an 1852 a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The performance will be sung in Italian and will run approximately two and one-half hours. James Conlon conducts.
LA Opera's production of La Traviata sets the action in the giddy, glitzy world of the Roaring Twenties, as a naive young man falls head over heels for a glamorous party girl. Together they trade the fast life for an idyllic love nest far from the city…until an unexpected visitor threatens to tear them apart.
One of opera’s greatest romances, La Traviata returns in Marta Domingo’s dazzlingly updated Art Deco-inspired production. Nino Machaidze, one of LA Opera’s favorite leading ladies, returns as Violetta, with Arturo Chacón-Cruz as her handsome Alfredo. The incomparable Plácido Domingo returns in one of his newest signature roles, as a father determined to do the right thing.
THE CAST
Violetta Valéry: Nino Machaidze
Alfredo Germont: Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Giorgio Germont: Plácido Domingo
Baron Douphol: Daniel Mobbs
Gastone de Letorieres: Brenton Ryan
Marquis d'Obigny: Daniel Armstrong
Doctor Grenvil: Soloman Howard
Flora Bervoix: Peabody Southwell
Annina: Vanessa Becerra
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