Opera Australia presents La Traviata

In a triumphant return to her home city, Melbourne-born soprano Stacey Alleaume will make her main-stage debut as Parisian courtesan Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, this May at Arts Centre Melbourne.

Raise your glass, bat your lashes, it’s Paris in the salons and you’re the life of this party. He’s staring at you, he’s singing for you...Are you tempted?

Violetta wears velvet and lace and drinks only the finest champagne from crystal glasses. Her parties are legendary, her company desired. She’s free and freespirited, living outside society’s bounds, and for the courtesan, it seems like the party will never end. Could a little love really change everything?

La Traviata is so popular because it puts a life we can only dream of on stage, with its risqué glamour, joys and sorrows.

Verdi’s music sings of freedom with flying melodies, makes merry with rousing drinking songs and leaves us with passionate duets between breaking hearts.

This production by Elijah Moshinsky is one of Opera Australia's most successful, featuring lush party scenes in Paris and beautiful autumn afternoons in the countryside.

Lavish sets and exquisite costumes combined with Verdi’s famous score offer the perfect way to experience opera for the first time, or the chance to revisit a favourite with an exciting new cast.

Home-grown talent Stacey Alleaume is rapidly gaining international recognition. Here, she reprises her role as Violetta after a stunning season in Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour.

CONDUCTOR: Renato Palumbo

DIRECTOR: Elijah Moshinsky

REVIVAL DIRECTOR: Constantine Costi

CHOREOGRAPHER: Matthew Barclay

CAST:

VIOLETTA VALÉRY: Stacey Alleaume

ALFREDO GERMONT: Ho-Yoon Chung

GIORGIO GERMONT: Mario Cassi

FLORA BERVOIX: Celeste Haworth

GASTONE: Iain Henderson

BARON DOUPHOL: Alexander Sefton

MARQUIS D’OBIGNY: Andrew Moran

DOCTOR GRENVIL: Richard Anderson

ANNINA: Danita Weatherstone

GIUSEPPE: Jin Tea Kim

MESSENGER: Jonathan McCauley

SERVANT: Malcolm Ede

Opera Australia Chorus

Orchestra Victoria