La Traviata

Love me Alfredo, as I love you
Why see La Traviata?
Perhaps he is the one
One of the very best in the repertoire, Verdi's La Traviata is a sweeping love story set against the backdrop of decadent Paris high society where the celebrated courtesan Violetta eschews her wealthy suitors for the simple life with poor Alfredo. In this sumptuous production from the ENO, our heroine is portrayed by Nicole Chevalier, opposite Jose Simerilla Romero as her besotted suitor Alfredo.
What is the story?
As one of the most beautiful courtesans of Paris, the alluring Violetta has many admirers but has let none of her wealthy suitors near her heart, preferring their generosity with their wallets to their baser attentions. It is in this world she meets Alfredo, a handsome yet penniless member of the bourgeois who wins her love and whisks her away to a countryside idyll in the hope of escaping her past life. Can their passion survive the reality of poverty, reputation and illness, or will everything they have fought to flee overwhelm the strongest emotion of them all?
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Elizabeth Zharoff as Violetta
Ben Johnson as Alfredo
Anthony Michaels-Moore as Giorgio Germon
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