IU Jacobs School of Music
IU Opera and Ballet Theater
Season List
Ticket Information
Directions to performance halls
Press Information
La TraviataLa Traviata

La Traviata

Libretto:
Francesco Maria Piave,
based on the novel Lady of the Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils

Premiere:
Teatro la Fenice, Venice, March 1853

Conductor:
David Effron

Stage Director:
Tito Capobianco

Set Designer:
C. David Higgins


Set in 18th-century paris and its vicinity

Based on a true-life experience of novelist Alexandre Dumas himself, this “affair to remember” kind of opera depicts Violetta Valery, a beautiful Parisian courtesan, unexpectedly finding love with a middle-class young man, Alfredo Germont.

Their affair is the scandal of Paris, and all too soon society and a fatal disease conspire against the lovers. Surrender yourself to an evening of sumptuous music, pageantry, and romance.

Sung in Italian with English supertitles