VERDI: LA TRAVIATA (PAL)

Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata

Patrizia Ciofi
Roberto Saccà
Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice
LORIN MAAZEL

Stage Director: Robert Carsen

Picture Format: 16:9, 1 DVD
Sound Format: LPCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Running Time: 146 mins
Region Code: PAL All
Booklet Languages: GB, F, D
Subtitles Languages: GB, F, D, I, E
Recording Date: Teatro La Fenice, Venice, November 2004
Territory: Worldwide

Cat. No: DV-OPLTLF

When the legendary Venetian Teatro La Fenice, which had been completely destroyed by fire in 1996, rose like a phoenix from the ashes again, its rebirth was celebrated with Verdi’s La Traviata, an opera that had seen its première more than 150 years earlier in the same theatre. Led by star conductor Lorin Maazel, a cast of brilliant singer-actors brought an exact replica of the March 1853 version to the stage, giving audiences the opportunity to experience the opera as the world first heard at its premiere in Venice. The original score had been found in the archives of La Fenice, so that La Traviata could relive its premiere without any revisions. The great Violetta-Germont duet, the second act finale and the opera’s last two numbers resounded through the theatre in just the way that Verdi initially intended.

With Italian soprano Patrizia Ciofi in the title role, German-Italian tenor Roberto Saccà as her lover and Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as his father, the live recording features highly eminent singers of the Italian repertoire and stars, who are at home in opera houses throughout the world.