For opera-goers of a certain age, Sutherland’s first recording was a starter Traviata. The Sutherland name-brand landed the original LPs in public libraries, where I, for one, discovered much of the ...

Europe was already convulsed by questions of moral duplicity when La traviata’s Violetta took to the stage. Ahead of a new documentary about Verdi’s masterpiece, Tom Service examines why the tragic ...

In his 18th opera, Giuseppe Verdi provocatively made the lead role a courtesan in contemporary Paris. Defending bourgeois propriety, Venetian censors forced a move back to 1700 and a title change from ...

Much has already been made about the set for this imported production of La traviata by the late great Czech-born stage designer, Josef Svoboda. He employs one of the oldest and most effective devices ...

Act Two of La Traviata features some of Verdi's finest music, including the tender aria "Di Provenza il mar," sung by Giorgio Germont (baritone Marzio Giossi) to comfort his son Alfredo, after ...

Alfredo Germont and the courtesan Violetta Valéry fall in love at a party in Violetta's Paris salon. Alfredo is determined to cure Violetta of her tuberculosis, and the couple leave Paris and begin a ...

Santiago de Chile, 11 ago (EFE).Santiago de Chile, 11 ago (EFE). — El Teatro Municipal de Santiago presentará desde este viernes una de las óperas vitalicias del compositor italiano Giuseppe Verdi, ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

The urgency to record Lisette Oropesa in La traviata was inevitable after her breakthrough 2015 role debut as Violetta at Opera Philadelphia, possibly from the moment in the first scene when she sang ...

It's hard to believe, but Verdi's three-act opera wasn't that popular at its premiere in March 1853 The first performance prompted jeers from the audience, but Verdi's La Traviata (translated as 'The ...