Traviata Berlin

Giuseppe Verdi

10.10.1813 (Le Roncole, Italy) – 27.01.1901 (Milano, Italy)

Main performers

Dariusz Mikulski (Music Director / Producer)
Anna Długołęcka (Director)
Joanna Horodko (Violetta Valery)
Tomasz Janczak (Alfredo Germont)

Description

La Traviata (Italian for “The one who has lost her way”) is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi (music) and Francesco Maria Piave (libretto) based on the novel “La dame aux camelias” (1848) by the author Alexandre Dumas the Younger in February 1852 also brought to the stage as a play. The opera was premiered on March 6, 1853 in the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and initially fell through with the audience before being revised to become one of the most successful operas in music history.

As before in “Rigoletto” and “Il trovatore”, Verdi placed a person who was ostracized and rejected by society at the center of the action. An opera about a courtesan dying of tuberculosis was unprecedented for the time.

In the staging in Berlin, which took place in Ernst-Reuter-Saal, Anna Długołęcka used elements of the stage design symbolizing the bygone era, destruction, neglect, disruption of the hierarchy of values characteristic of the dramatic fate of the main character – Violetta Valery. Original graphics and acoustics, participation in the project of local creative circles. The Orchestra Sinfonia Masovia under the direction of Dariusz Mikulski played very exact and dynamic. All of this created a unique spectacle widely reported in national and international media.