A tragic story of love and society ramped up to fever pitch by Verdi, La Traviata (literally the “the woman who strayed”) is one of the most popular works in the entire history of opera. This new production features Jérémie Rhorer, conducting his ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, who has decided to perform Verdi’s work - probably for the first time in Paris - in the original 432 Hz tuning in which it was composed and which Verdi consistently proclaimed was its “natural harmony”. The cast assembled here brings together the pick of the talented crop of “thirty-something” French singers which has blossomed in recent seasons. British director Deborah Warner, who is steeped in Shakespearian theatre tradition which is unrivalled for its exploration of the world of passions, treachery and the whole gamut of human situations, stages this production.

Verdi: La Traviata

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual. The maritime atmosphere, the crudity of people’s lives and passions, and the complex, impenetrable personality of the protagonist come together in a tragedy which ferments and explodes in the din of silence and hearsay.  New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden of London, the Opéra national of Paris and the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome