LA TRAVIATA

LA TRAVIATA di Giuseppe Verdi

Conductor: Mauro Roveri / Alberto Meoli
Costumes -Annette Rossy
Sets - Miriam Polesi - Regie E. Frendi
Chor Conductor - A. Corso


Orchestra Choir and Singers: Filarmonica d’Opera di Roma

Violetta Valery: Marina Di Marco
Alfredo Germont: Sandro Ferri
Giorgio Germont: Clemente Franciosi
Flora Bervoix: Daniela Ciavoni
Gastone: Pierluigi Paolucci
Il Barone Douphol: Sandro Socali
Annina: Carla Ricci
Giuseppe servo di Violetta: Gianni Frighetto
Il commissionario: Andrea Atteritano
Il Dottor Grenvil: Bernardino Di Bagno

Mauro Roveri, Alberto Meoli, Giorgio Tentoni - Director
Annette Rossy - Costumes
Miriam Polesi - Scenes
E. Frendi - Stage director
A. Cordo - Choir Director

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It takes as its basis the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848. It was first performed at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, on March 6, 1853. The title ´La traviata´ means literally The Woman Who Strayed, or perhaps more figuratively, The Fallen One, an allegorical reference to the fallen angel, ´Satan´. The original audience appears to have been puzzled by the fact that the opera had a contemporary setting. However, the opera has become immensely popular; according to Opera America, La traviata is the third most performed opera in North America, behind only Madama Butterfly and La bohème.

During a party, courtesan Violetta discovers that Alfredo loves her since one year. A short while afterwards they are living together near Paris, but because of her past behaviour, alfredo’s father asks her to leave him. Violetta sacrifice herself and Alfredo, unaware, hurts her. Some months later Violetta is dying. Alfredo learned the truth, goes to her, but too late and she dies into his arms

Place

All Saints' Church is an active English-speaking congregation representing the Anglican Communion in Rome, Italy.

The church building is a very fine red-brick construction in a neo-gothic style, situated in the Via del Babuino, about 100 meters from the Spanish Steps. The architect was George Edmund Street (1824 – 1881). It is regularly used for concerts, as well as for the church services.