La Traviata @ Lucerne Theatre

Thu, 1. January 1970

Nicole Chevalier (Violetta Valéry)
Diego Silva (Alfredo Germont) (25.04. / 19.05. / 24.05. / 26.05.)
Hyojong Kim (Alfredo Germont) (01.02. / 10.02.)
Jason Cox (Giogio Germont)
Rebecca Krynski Cox (Flora Bervoix)
Anna Nero (Annina)
Robert Maszl (Gastone / Giuseppe)
Marco Bappert (Baron Duphol)
Balduin Ariel Schneeberger (Marchese d'Obigny)
Vuyani Mlinde (Dottore Grenvil)
Robert Hunghoon Lee (Commissionario)
Choir of the LT
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Musical direction: Clemens Heil

Always sold out so far. In its third season and only six more times in Lucerne! In Benedikt von Peter's production, Nicole Chevalier as Violetta Valery stands alone on the stage of the LT for two hours and twenty minutes - close to the audience, as if through a magnifying glass, we watch the passionate journey of a loving woman who burns not only her body but also her feelings in front of us and for us, working away at the romantic ideal of love: Can her great desire for love be fulfilled or does she not avoid the reality of lived everyday love through her search for transcendence?

And time and again, a profound loneliness shimmers through the façade of the most famous courtesan in opera history's ‘love professionalism’, the longing to meet someone in the ‘desert of Paris’ who really loves her, who desires her not only as an object of desire in her love performance or as an exaggerated, quasi-religious image, but as a human being.

Production: Benedikt von Peter

Stage: Katrin Wittig

Costumes: Geraldine Arnold

Lighting: David Hedinger-Wohnlich