La traviata Verdi
Opéra de Montréal
QC

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MAY 4 • 7 • 9, 2024 → 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2024 → 2 PM

Hall: SALLE WILFRID-PELLETIER
Venue: PLACE DES ARTS
Language: ITALIAN (Subtitles : English and French)
Duration: 2H15
Intermission: 1

Summary

How far would you go, in the name of love? La Traviata, one of Verdi’s – and of the entire repertoire’s – most popular operas, introduces us to a kind of love both unbridled and doomed. Set in Paris in the 1920s, the incredible story of the courtesan Violetta is reimagined through a jazz-age entertainer who has taken the city by storm. Proving that we are never bound to a single path, nor to a single journey.

SELF-LOVE WILL NEVER BREAK YOUR HEART

Courtesan Violetta lives her life in a self-indulgent, proud, almost arrogant way. Until the very day when her eyes and her heart are cast on the young Alfredo, who comes from a prominent family. Ready to give up everything to fullfill their passionate romance, one they both believe they deserve, the couple challenges the beliefs and standards of their time.

PREOPERA

To all ticket holders: a free pre-concert presentation with Michel Marc Bouchard (librettist) will take place one hour before each performance at the Piano Nobile in Place des Arts. Moderator : Pierre Vachon, musicologue

Composer GIUSEPPE VERDI >
Stage Director ALAIN GAUTHIER >

Cast

Conductor JORDAN DE SOUZA
Violetta Valéry TALISE TREVIGNE
Alfredo Germont RAME LAHAJ
Giorgio Germont JAMES WESTMAN
Flora Bervoix ILANNA STARR
Marquis d’Obigny GEOFFREY SCHELLENBERG
Gastone ANGELO MORETTI
Baron Douphol MIKELIS ROGERS
Docteur Grenvil JEAN-PHILIPPE MC CLISH

ORCHESTRE MÉTROPOLITAIN
CHOEUR DE L’OPÉRA DE MONTRÉAL

SETS & COSTUMES Christina Poddobiuk / LIGHTING Kevin Lamotte / PRODUCTION Edmonton Opera, Manitoba Opera, Vancouver Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Opéra de Montréal