Verdi/La Traviata (Dvd)

Richard Eyre’s beautiful production provides the perfect setting for Verdi’s opera about a courtesan who sacrifices all for love.

Soprano Ermonela Jaho stars as Violetta Valéry, with Charles Castronovo as her lover Alfredo and Plácido Domingo as Alfredo’s stern father Giorgio Germont, in The Royal Opera’s much loved production of Verdi’s La traviata.

One of the greatest of all operas, La traviata is based on the novel and play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, inspired in turn by the life and death of the real Parisian courtesan, Marie Duplessis. The opera tells the profoundly moving story of a courtesan prepared to sacrifice everything for love, and contains some of Verdi’s most beautiful arias and duets.

Richard Eyre’s engrossing naturalistic production features stunning designs by his regular collaborator Bob Crowley. Italian conductor Antonello Manacorda conducts Verdi’s sublime score, which offers a wonderful showcase for the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus.

Extra features:

• Introduction to La traviata
• Behind the Movement
• Interviews with Richard Eyre and Bob Crowley
• Cast gallery

Cast:

• Violetta Valéry: Ermonela Jaho
• Alfredo Germont: Charles Castronovo
• Giorgio Germont: Plácido Domingo
• Annina: Pamela Helen Stephen
• Doctor Grenvil: Simon Shibambu

Director: Richard Eyre

Designer: Bob Crowley

Duration: approx. 200 minutes

Audio: LPCM 2.0 + DTS Digital Surround