Roberto Alagna

Roberto Alagna

LA TRAVIATA - Verdi - Paris

Opera

 
TRAVIATA
opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. It was first performed on 6 March 1853 at the La Fenice opera house in Venice.
 
 

Performances

 

Opéra National de Paris - Bastille

Oktober 26th 2018

 

Cast

 

 

Aleksandra Kurzak - Violetta Valery
Virginie Verrez - Flora Bervoix
Cornelia Oncioiu - Annina 
 
Roberto Alagna - Alfredo Germont
Luca Salsi - Giorgio Germont 
Julien Dran - Gastone
Igor Gnidii - Il Barone Douphol
Luc Bertin-Hugault - Il Dottore Granvil
 
 
Conductor - Giacomo Sagripanti
productor - Benoît Jacquot
Sets - Sylvain Chauvelot
Costumes - Christian Gasc
 
Orchestre et choeurs  "l'Opéra National de Paris"
 
 
 

Press Review 

 

ForumOpera.com - Audrey Bouctot - novembre 2018

 
"Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto Alagna triumph at the Bastille" 
 
EXERPT: "On the occasion of the release of their new album, Puccini in love, Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak were performing together La Traviata last night, October 26, on the stage of Bastille for a single show. No sooner had Roberto Alagna stepped off the plane that brought him back from New York, still exhausted by the jetlag, than he was to sketch the first notes of Alfredo. By his mere presence, he illuminated the first act, deploying in the first scene of Act II - facing Violetta and his father - this colorful and solar voice that characterizes him. Crazed with grief, impressive by his scorn when he "compensates" Violetta, his distraught despair in Act III upset the audience who acclaimed him during the curtain call. Aleksandra Kurzak as at the opening performance was dazzling. In front of Roberto Alagna, she acted an even more mischievous and facetious Violetta in Act I. From "E strano", she gave us a series of pianissimi and indefinitely held notes, that she repeated all along the evening."
 
 

Gallery

 



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