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LA TRAVIATA on Saturday, April 18 at 3pm** Starring Victoria Cannizzo, Sergio Mandujano, & Timothy LeFebvre! **
Language: Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Run Time: 2 hr 30 min with one intermission
Location:
Broome County Forum Theatre
236 Washington Street
Binghamton, NY 13901
La Traviata, composed by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, is a tragic opera set in Paris and follows the story of Violetta Valéry, a celebrated courtesan. At a lavish party, she meets Alfredo Germont, a young man who has admired her from afar. Touched by his sincerity and love, Violetta abandons her glamorous lifestyle and retreats to the countryside with him. Their happiness is short-lived, however, when Alfredo’s father, Giorgio Germont, secretly visits Violetta and urges her to end the relationship to preserve the family’s honor and secure his daughter’s future.
The opera explores powerful themes such as the conflict between personal desire and social convention, the redemptive power of love, and the cruelty of sacrifice. Violetta’s journey from a figure of indulgence to one of profound emotional depth highlights issues of gender, class, and morality in 19th-century society. La Traviata remains one of the most moving portrayals of doomed love in the operatic canon, both for its emotional resonance and its searing social commentary.
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Broome County Forum Theatre, Washington Street, Binghamton, NY, USA, United States
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