La Traviata di G. Verdi e F. M. Piave
Tuesday 23 July 2024 ⤳ 9.00 pm
Corte di Villa Torlonia, San Mauro Pascoli
Free entry
LA TRAVIATA opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave12 characters interpreted by one of the two singing companies of international opera artists
director and concertmaster Joseph Rescigno
directed by Travis Sherwood
scenes Tom Burch
costumes Audrey Hamilton
lights David Navalinsky
Orchestra Città di Ravenna
Choir La Musica Opera USA
An international co-production of the Montefeltro Festival 2024
La Musica Lirica USA and Voci nel Montefeltro, International Lyric Academy, Novafeltria
main sponsor: RivieraBanca ICCREA Cooperative Banking Group
________________________________________
La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It focuses on The Lady of the Camellias, a play by Alexandre Dumas fils, which the author himself based on his previous novel of the same name. The opera is part of Verdi's so-called "popular trilogy", together with 'Il Trovatore' and 'Rigoletto'. The first performance took place at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853 but, perhaps due to poor performers and - probably - the subject then considered rough, it did not prove to be the success that its author had expected; it was revived on 6 May of the following year, again in Venice but at the San Benedetto Theatre, in a reworked version and with better quality performers and, finally under the direction of Verdi himself, it achieved deserved success, soon becoming one of Verdi's most beloved operas.
Due to the criticism of the hypocrisy of contemporary bourgeois society, the opera, in various productions of Italian theatres, was reworked by the censors and staged with some completely distorted songs. Again to escape censorship, the opera even had to be moved chronologically from the 19th to the 18th century.
For the underlying humanism, for the ethical sensitivity against hypocrisy, for the melodic perfection and the dryness and effectiveness of the orchestrations, the opera is considered one of Verdi's masterpieces and one of the greatest operas ever written; according to data published by Operabase in 2013, La traviata is the most performed opera in the world in the last five seasons, with 629 performances.