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Traviata - vous méritez un avenir meilleur

In Traviata – you deserve a better future, the audience is invited into Violetta’s privacy to have a close look at the fire to which she abandons herself.

An overpowering and paradoxical perfume of dream and reality floats around La Traviata, as if the life and death of this so-called “errant” woman seem more real and more elusive than those of other opera heroines. It is with this perfume, composed of rare flower essences, of alcohols, of prescription drugs, of skins caressed, of seemingly odourless money, that Giuseppe Verdi deeply impregnated his musical material, just at the time when the perfume of the story of the courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died in 1847, six years before the opera was created in Venice, was evaporating.

In Traviata – you deserve a better future, the audience is invited into Violetta’s privacy to have a close look at the fire to which she abandons herself among the guests of this musical and phantasmagorical celebration that blends theatre and opera, voices that speak and sing, and where the distinction between the instrumentalists and the singers becomes blurred, where Charles Baudelaire is seated next to Christophe Tarkos, and where the phantoms of this Paris in full industrial boom whose future we are living at present, sing and die.

Original title Traviata - vous méritez un avenir meilleur
Genre Opera / Theater
Recording location Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris)
Recording date 2017
Production year 2018
Duration 130
Video format 16/9 ; NTSC (DVD), Full HD (Blu-ray)
Audio format PCM 2.0 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 (DVD), DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 (Blu-ray)
Director Corentin Leconte
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor Florent Hubert
Stage Director Benjamin Lazar
Costumes Julia Brochier
Soloist Judith Chemla
Soloist Damien Bigourdan
Soloist Jérôme Billy
Soloist Elise Chauvin
Soloist Florent Baffi
Distribution DVD Naxos Distribution