Violetta Valéry is beautiful, intelligent and warm-hearted – and terminally ill. Her path in life as a high-class courtesan is already mapped out.
There is no room in it for personal happiness, nor for her love for the young Alfredo Germont, who wins her heart and seeks to rescue her from the vicious circle of prostitution into a life of carefree happiness. Yet Alfredo’s father stands firmly in their way, and fate takes its course…
Giuseppe Verdi tells the story of *La Dame aux Camélias* with overwhelming musical intensity: sparkling waltzes and sweeping choral scenes give way to intimate cantilenas, passionate duets and arias. With brilliant bel canto splendour and harrowing dramatic force, the music traces Violetta’s inner journey – moving and profoundly human.
Performed in Italian with surtitles. (Source: Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
