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La Traviata
Opéra Bastille
19h30
Dress Cocktail attire
Who does not know the story of La Traviata? Inspired by the life of Marie Duplessis in La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas, Verdi composed the grand opera of feminine tragedy: a drama where, in the name of debauchery, society authorises extremes of sentiment and affronts the modesty of the most fragile emotions with an unhealthy voyeurism. Torn between love and moral duty, the heroine succumbs to the disease that corrupts both her body and her soul, a soul inured to self‑sacrifice. Like Manet’s Olympia, in Benoît Jacquot’s production the character of Violetta is exposed to the predatory gaze of spectators who have come to denude her.
La Traviata
Production de 1994 - Benoît Jacquot
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Music
Giuseppe Verdi
(1813‑1901) -
Libretto
Francesco Maria Piave
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Conductor
Dan Ettinger
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Director
Benoît Jacquot
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Set design
Sylvain Chauvelot
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Costume design
Christian Gasc
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Lighting design
André Diot
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Choreography
Philippe Giraudeau
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Chorus master
Alessandro Di Stefano
Cast
Rebeka
Violetta Valéry
Verrez
Flora Bervoix
Druet
Annina
Castronovo
Alfredo Germont
Bilyy
Giorgio Germont
Dran
Gastone
Rouillon
Il Barone Douphol
Matos
Il Marchese d'Obigny
Lavoie
Dottore Grenvil
Bernard
Giuseppe
Moungoungou
Domestico
Palloni
Commissionario
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris