Composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, La traviata was first perfomed at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice, on 6 March 1853. The third of the so called “popular trilogy” (the other two being Rigoletto and Trovatore), it has even richer undertones in the psychological portrayal of the protagonist and is the most intimist of the three. The result, moreover, is practically unrivalled in the entire history of Italian opera.
The plot is a mix of the typical ingredients of nineteenth-century libretto-writing, such as love triumphing over any limits imposed by the rules of social convention and the supremacy of the irrational values of blood relations (the family) over anything else.
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