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| Jon & Lisa |
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| Violetta & Alfredo |
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| Abs & Amelia |
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| Caleb & David |
The Dallas Opera’s latest
production, La Traviata,
held it’s student performance tonight at the Winspear Opera House. It is their rendition of Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic
opera.
La Traviata (which translates
roughly to “The Fallen Woman”), Violetta, a socialite suffering from
tuberculosis who has taken a variety of wealthy lovers, eventually falls for
the heroic, but poorer Alfredo Germont.
They live happily
together on a country estate until Alfredo’s father asks Violetta to leave so that Alfredo’s
siblings are more desirable for marriage. She has brought shame to the family.
Violetta leaves so
that Alfredo can have a better life and goes to a party with her old friends.
Alfredo arrives and, in a flash of anger, embarrasses her in front of the
entire party. Six months later, in her apartment in Paris, Violetta lies dying
from tuberculosis. Alfredo and his father arrive to beg for forgiveness, and
she dies in Alfredo’s arms.
All of the set is
reminiscent of Victorian decadence, with elaborate gilded furniture. Costumes
are also beautifully complex, particularly during the party scene, in which
several of the chorus members break the staid, Victorian mold with exotic
Eastern and African party attire.
La Traviata is everything you go
to the opera for: the costumes, the stage design, the orchestra, the incredible
voices and the tragedy of it all.
the men themselves consort with harlots
and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes—
a people without understanding will come to ruin!
Hosea 4:14
Hosea 4:14
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