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La Traviata State Opera Vienna - Wien Thu 11.Mar 2027 replace me !La Traviata State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 14.Mar 2027 replace me !La Traviata State Opera Vienna - Wien Wed 17.Mar 2027 replace me !La Traviata State Opera Vienna - Wien Sat 20.Mar 2027 replace me !Violetta Valéry is more than a woman. She's an object of desire – for sale in Parisian society –, who finds love in Alfredo but gives in to his father's social arrogance and separates from him.
In his spectacular production, which juggles huge video screens and social media, Simon Stone brings this story into the present day. Violetta is a Parisian it-girl, an influencer who remains trapped in the Instagram bubble and whose life is at the mercy of virtual presentation and showmanship. She is lonely in the public eye - and an outsider.
Simon Stone's production takes the contemporary nature of La Traviata literally - Violetty Valéry lives here in a very contemporary Paris full of glitz and glamor. In lavishly produced video sequences, the director and his team also continue the self-confident character of Violetta already created by Verdi and librettist Soave: as an influencer with millions of Instagram followers and her own perfume line, she is perfectly capable of looking after herself - as long as her state of health allows it. The realism and opulence of the videos contrasts attractively with Bob Cousins' reduced stage aesthetic, in which realistic stage elements appear to be presented as if on a semantic platter.
For this production, we recommend a minimum age of 14.
La Traviata contains some of the most famous melodies in opera literature - Violetta's "Amami, Alfredo" and the notorious drinking song "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" are just two of the numbers that have long since taken on a life of their own outside the operatic context. However, their quality only becomes truly understandable within this context: "What makes Verdi so special beyond the 'solite convenienze' [the binding dramaturgical rules of his time, note] is above all his melodic invention, which arises less from a sense of flexible cantilenas than from the dramatic gesture. It gives contour to the characters without, of course, neglecting the interests of the singing stars. Verdi's composing is highly empathetic; instead of presenting the events on stage like an omniscient narrator through the musical movement, Verdi slips into his roles, as it were, and lets them speak for themselves." (Silke Leopold).Alexandre Dumas' novel La dame aux camélias(The Lady of the Camellias, 1848) was such a great success that the author adapted the work into a play. Giuseppe Verdi knew both versions; he saw the play version at its premiere in Paris in 1852. In the adaptation by librettist Francesco Maria Piave, Marguerite Gautier became Violetta Valéry and the sensational play first became one of the first realistic operas ever, then - in the course of history and without Verdi's intervention - the third part of the so-called "Trilogia popolare" (with Il Trovatore and Rigoletto), and finally the most popular and most frequently performed Verdi opera of all time.Today, “La Traviata” is one of the most popular operas in the world. Save yourself tickets for the Vienna State Opera and book tickets now at viennaticket.at.
(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
