EVENT NAME: La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi

EVENT PLACE: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

EVENT DATE: From November 19, 2024 to December 1, 2024

EVENT DESCRIPTION

In the winter of 1852 Giuseppe Verdi attended the performance of La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils in Paris, the story of a well-known prostitute of the time, of her impossible love and of the reconquest of her dignity through suffering and death. The sensitive topic, taken from a news story, stimulates the creative imagination of the composer who is always looking for new dramaturgical solutions. A few months later, from the partnership with the librettist Francesco Maria Piave, one of the most performed and loved operas of all time was born – La traviata – which debuted at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853.

The "certainly effective" subject, as defined by Verdi himself in his correspondence, sees the reasons of the heart opposed to those of a right-thinking and hypocritical society: in the setting of a pleasure-loving Paris, animated by waltzes, parties and sequins, the drama takes place by Violetta Valéry, one of the most complex figures in Verdi's dramaturgy. Condemned a priori by the same society of which she is a daughter for her condition as a lost woman, Violetta is not allowed to experience true love or redeem herself from an unhappy past. She will therefore have to give in to bourgeois conventions and renounce her love for Alfredo, but nevertheless she will be transformed by the composer into a true tragic heroine thanks to the powerful means of music. 

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