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An opera in two acts by Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi, stage director Francesca Zambello and music director Laurent Campellone. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. La Traviata — surely is one of the greatest operas ever written, and one of the most important works from the so-called ”middle period“ in the works ofVerdi. For the first time ever the composer based his opera on a modern, popular, book which shocked the society, and not a myth, or, say, a play by Shakespeare. It was a real revolution, a real shock to the public: the opera, which tells about real people, living in the present, with real problems, the opera telling the story about love between an experienced woman and a very young man who, in addition, came from different social strata, about anincurable disease. And, please, note that La Traviata does not belong to those works where love overcomes all obstacles (Francesca Zambello).
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