LA TRAVIATA

Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi

After a lavish party in her Parisian salon, the courtesan Violetta Valéry, who is adored by everyone, presents the student Alfredo Germont with a camellia blossom: may he come back when the flower has withered. Thus begins the love story, which tells of passion, renunciation, jealousy and death. When Giuseppe Verdi saw a performance of Alexandre Dumas the Younger's play The Lady of the Camellias in 1852, he decided to turn the tragic story into an opera. Just one year later, his Traviata (translated: "the one who strayed from the right path") celebrated its premiere. To this day, Verdi moves audiences around the world to tears by accompanying Violetta to her death with a chamber-play-like musical intimacy.