Traviata - Vous meritez un avenir meilleur (after A. Dumas (fils) and G. Verdi)

Composer: Lazar, Benjamin

Composer: Chemla, Judith

Composer: Hubert, Florent

Conductor: Hubert, Florent

Conductor: Escobar, Paul

Accordion: Levasseur, Gabriel

Alfredo Germont: Bigourdan, Damien

Baron Douphol: Locher, Benjamin

Cello: Hetzel, Myrtille

Clarinet: Ciofolo, Axelle

Double bass: Bris, Bruno Le

Flora Bervoix et Anina: Chauvin, Elise

Giorgio Germont: Billy, Jerome

The Doctor: Baffi, Florent

Trombone: Llado, Sebastien

Violetta Valery: Chemla, Judith

Violin: Salvat, Marie

Set Designer: Caron, Adeline

Costume Designer: Brochier, Julia

Lighting Designer: Iger, Mael

Stage Director: Lazar, Benjamin

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Date of Production: 17-01-2020

Venue: Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris

Playing Time: 02:10:40

Catalogue Number: BAC156

UPC: 3760115301566

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An overpowering and paradoxical perfume of dream and reality floats around La Traviata, as if the life and death of this so-called 'errant' woman seem more real and more elusive than those of other opera heroines. It is with this perfume, composed of rare flower essences, of alcohols, of prescription drugs, of skins caressed, of seemingly odourless money, that Giuseppe Verdi deeply impregnated his musical material, just at the time when the perfume of the story of the courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died in 1847, six years before the opera was created in Venice, was evaporating.

In Traviata - You Deserve a Better Future, the audience is invited into Violetta's privacy to have a close look at the fire to which she abandons herself among the guests of this musical and phantasmagorical celebration that blends theatre and opera, voices that speak and sing; and where the distinction between the instrumentalists and the singers becomes blurred, where Charles Baudelaire is seated next to Christophe Tarkos, and where the phantoms of this Paris in full industrial boom whose future we are living in at present, sing and die.