opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoGiuseppe Verdi, La Traviata (1853)
libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Opera Australia, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, 2012
- Conductor: Brian Castles-Onion
- Director: Francesca Zambello
- Set Designer: Brian Thomson
- Violetta: Emma Matthews
- Alfredo: Gianluca Terranova
- Germont: Jonathan Summers
La Traviata is not usually associated with spectacle, but this amazing production, done outdoors with Sydney Harbour as a backdrop, complete with fireworks and "Sempre libera" in the basket of a sort of balloon, is about as spectacular as opera gets.