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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:La traviata
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DESCRIPTION:In setting »La Dame aux Camélias« to music\, Verdi explored\
 , in a shockingly direct way\, two big themes of the 19th century: prostit
 ution and consumption. Götz Friedrich’s production stresses the futilit
 y of Violetta Valéry’s attempt to escape her fate … Conductor: Ivan R
 epušić / Francesco Lanzillotta\; Director: Götz Friedrich\; With Adela 
 Zaharia / Elbenita Kaitazi\, Amitai Pati / Andrei Danilov\, Thomas Lehman 
 / Dean Murphy a.o.\nAbout the workVioletta Valery\, living in kept splendo
 ur at the expense of Baron Douphol\, has apparently recovered from a serio
 us illness. To celebrate\, she throws a party where she meets and falls fo
 r Alfredo Germont. As their love for each other is frowned upon\, they set
  up house outside of Paris. Alfredo’s father insists that she break with
  his son in order not to jeopardise the marriage prospects of Alfredo’s 
 sister. Violetta accedes to his wish and cuts off relations. In a showdown
  at another party Violetta tries to convince Alfredo that she’s in love 
 with the Baron\, causing Alfredo to hurl his gambling winnings at her feet
 \, calling them “fees for services rendered”. Soon afterwards\, at the
  height of the Paris carnival\, Violetta is on her deathbed. She receives 
 Alfredo\, who has heard from his father her real reason for leaving him. V
 ioletta forgives him\, gives him her blessing and dies.\n\nVerdi’s only 
 opera to be set in middle-class circles of mid-nineteenth-century Paris wa
 s based on “La dame aux camélias”\, an acclaimed novel by Alexandre D
 umas fils. The novel referenced the death of Marie Duplessis\, a 23-year-o
 ld courtesan\, from TB on 3rd February 1847 as the occasion for a critical
  study of the Parisian demi-monde. Where Dumas’s main characters form pa
 rt of a tight social network\, Verdi and librettist Francesco Maria Piave 
 eliminate anything that isn’t directly linked to the clashes between Vio
 letta\, Alfredo and father\, Giorgio Germont. This drama of interior emoti
 ons focuses on the three stations on Violetta’a via: love\, renunciation
  and death.\n\nAbout the productionGötz Friedrich gave the opera the trag
 ic slant of a requiem by telling Violetta’s story in the form of flashba
 cks\, which begin with the prelude presenting Violetta lying on a white de
 athbed on a stark stage that resembles a massive tomb. She rises from the 
 bed (which promptly becomes a chaise longue)\, pulls on a ballroom gown an
 d turns to receive Paris’s party people disgorging into the room. The ta
 le is unsentimentally staged\, with no hint of trivial directness. The foc
 us is on the drama’s interiority and the atmosphere of death and doom.
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