La Traviata: Love, Death & Divas

Jul 18, 2015

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Overview

The arias of La traviata are instantly recognisable. Yet at its London premiere in 1856, it was denounced for bringing 'the poetry of the brothel' to the stage and unleashing uncomfortable truths on Victorian society.

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TV Movie

Production Companies

Reef Television

BBC Worldwide

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Cast

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Josephine Barstow

Germont

Stephen Gadd

Violetta

Gabriela Iştoc

Alfredo

Edgaras Montvidas

Self - Host

Tom Service

Self - Host

Amanda Vickery

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Così fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all. The Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke once said that he was merely being precise and did not want to distort reality. In only his second opera production after Don Giovanni in 2006, he presents what ARTE described as a “disillusioned vision of love in an ice-cold, realistic interpretation”.

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La Traviata: Love, Death & Divas

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