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La Traviata
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Programme
Paolo Carignaniconductor
La Traviata
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave from the play by Alexandre Dumas fils La Dame aux Camélias
First performed in 1853 in Venise
Last time at the Grand Théâtre de Genève 2012-2013
New production
Sung in Italian with French and English surtitles
Duration: approx. 2h35 with one intermissions
Musical Director, Paolo Carignani
Stage Director, Karin Henkel
Scenographer, Aleksandar Denić
Costumes designer, Teresa Vergho
Dramaturgy, Malte Ubenauf
Choir director, Mark Biggins
Violetta Valéry, Ruzan Mantashyan (14.6, 18,6, 22.6, 26.6) / Jeanine De Bique (15.6, 20.6, 24.6, 27.6)
Violetta Valéry (backing), Martina Russomanno
Alfredo Germont, Enea Scala (14.6, 18,6, 22.6, 26.6) / Julien Behr (15.6, 20.6, 24.6, 27.6)
Giorgio Germont, Luca Micheletti (14.6, 18,6, 22.6, 26.6) / Tassis Christoyannis (15.6, 20.6, 24.6, 27.6)
Gastone de Letorières, Emanuel Tomljenovic
Flora Bervoix, Yuliia Zasimova
Annina, Élise Bédènes
Marchese D’Obigny, Raphaël Hardmeyer
Dottore Grenvil, Mark Kurmanbayev
Barone Douphol, David Ireland
Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
The music
To end the season, one of the most emblematic figures of female sacrifice in opera: Violetta Valéry. Or Marguerite Gautier in Lady of the Camellias, the original work by Alexandre Dumas fils. A demi-mondaine with a pure and generous soul, she offers up her happiness on the altar of bourgeois morality in order to protect the reputation and future of her lover – and in the process wins the prize for the longest dying scene in the repertory… But even within this atoning sacrifice, in this final ‘Oh joy!’ that she pushes out on the exhale, under our cold spotlights, Violetta achieves a romantic glory that none of the men who gravitate around her will ever share. These men will undoubtedly be content with a small, peaceful and self-righteous death. And off-camera.
