Komische Oper Berlin at Schillertheater
La traviata
Opera
Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin
Giuseppe Verdi
© Iko Freese / drama-berlin.de
© Iko Freese / drama-berlin.de
Description
Violetta Valéry sells her time and body to clients both near and far. Her life as a Parisian courtesan provides her with every luxury. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, her world is shattered in an instant…
With La Traviata, or ‘the one who’s gone astray’, Nicola Raab reimagines Giuseppe Verdi’s classic about love and suffering as the escape of a modern woman who loses herself in dreamscapes and phantasms—until she is forced to confront the inevitable. In a complex layering of associations and motifs, the lonely protagonist drifts between reality and escapist fantasy, between love and despair.
PLOT
Act 1
Everything in Violetta Valéry’s solitary life seems perfect. Clad in corsets and crinoline she sells her body with great success to clients from near and far, her performances as the »Parisian Courtesan« permitting her every imaginable luxury … But her glamorous lifestyle falls apart when she is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Driven by fear, she escapes her loneliness into her own Parisian fantasy world, where she has encounters with other inhabitants. Alfredo Germont confesses his love without any reservation, promising to take care of her at all times. Bewildered by this revelation, Violetta remains behind alone.
Act 2
With La Traviata, or ‘the one who’s gone astray’, Nicola Raab reimagines Giuseppe Verdi’s classic about love and suffering as the escape of a modern woman who loses herself in dreamscapes and phantasms—until she is forced to confront the inevitable. In a complex layering of associations and motifs, the lonely protagonist drifts between reality and escapist fantasy, between love and despair.
PLOT
Act 1
Everything in Violetta Valéry’s solitary life seems perfect. Clad in corsets and crinoline she sells her body with great success to clients from near and far, her performances as the »Parisian Courtesan« permitting her every imaginable luxury … But her glamorous lifestyle falls apart when she is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Driven by fear, she escapes her loneliness into her own Parisian fantasy world, where she has encounters with other inhabitants. Alfredo Germont confesses his love without any reservation, promising to take care of her at all times. Bewildered by this revelation, Violetta remains behind alone.
Act 2
Violetta and Alfredo lead a happy and secluded life in their own world. Violetta loses herself in dreams. Then suddenly a man appears who introduces himself as Giorgio Germont, Alfredo’s father. He disapproves of his son’s association with Violetta and demands that she leave him for good.
Violetta is scared of losing control over her own life and even contemplates suicide as a way out. She is in conflict with herself, with her love, her fantasies and her fear. She banishes Alfredo’s father from her mind – but to no avail. Finally she collapses under the strain of being humiliated and spurned by that society of phantoms.
Act 3
Violetta is alone. Only her confidante Annina has remained at her side. Violetta knows she is going to die and decides to end her life by her own hand … Suddenly there he is again, the man of her dreams: Alfredo! Followed by his father Germont. Alfredo wants Violetta back and begins to rhapsodize about their future together. But reality bursts in upon Violetta’s fantasies – and she dies.
Act 3
Violetta is alone. Only her confidante Annina has remained at her side. Violetta knows she is going to die and decides to end her life by her own hand … Suddenly there he is again, the man of her dreams: Alfredo! Followed by his father Germont. Alfredo wants Violetta back and begins to rhapsodize about their future together. But reality bursts in upon Violetta’s fantasies – and she dies.
Cast
Andrea Sanguineti
Musikalische Leitung
Nicola Raab
Inszenierung
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Chorsolisten der Komischen Oper Berlin
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Kseniia Proshina
Violetta Valéry
José Simerilla Romero
Alfredo Germont
Andrei Bondarenko (18.4., 30.4., 17.5.) / Günter Papendell (24.4., 2.5.)
Giorgio Germont
Grace Heldridge
Flora Bervoix
Ulrike Helzel
Annina
Ivan Turšić
Gastone de Letorières
Tom Erik Lie
Barone Douphol
Junoh Lee
Marchese d'Obigny
Philipp Meierhöfer
Dottore Grenvil
Thoma Jaron-Wutz
Giuseppe
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Madeleine Boyd
Bühnenbild
Annemarie Woods
Kostüme
Linus Fellbom
Licht
Simon Berger
Dramaturgie
David Cavelius
Chorleitung
Geoffrey Loff
Musikalische Studienleitung
Lutz Kohl, Rui Rodrigues
Korrepetition
Dates
Komische Oper Berlin at Schillertheater
Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin
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