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Details: The Italian Institute of Culture in Luxembourg is organising an interesting play with music (in French) about Verdi’s La traviata, on Friday 23 May 2014 at 20:00 at the Abbaye de Neumunster (Salle Robert Krieps) in Luxembourg-Grund.
After shows devoted to Beethoven and Mozart, the writer Corrado Augean moves his attention to Giuseppe Verdi and his most popular opera, La Traviata. Alternating text, music and images, he takes the audience into the Paris of the 1800s to meet Violetta Valery, accompanied on piano by Giuseppe Modugno.
Alphonsine Plessis was born in Normandy into a very poor family and was entrusted, at 14 years old, to gypsies. She finds herself in Paris under the name of Marie Duplessis, becomes a key figure in the worldly life, has many lovers including a son of Alexandre Dumas. She has a turbulent relationship with him that ends after one year. At 23 years of age, Marie died of consumption. Overwhelmed but aware of the literary interest in his story, Dumas wrote La dame aux camélias, a novel in which Mary becomes Marguerite Gautier and achieves a huge success.
While in Paris in 1852, Verdi attends a reading from the novel. The story seems written it for him. And in 1853, his opera whose libretto was Francesco Maria Piave and whose heroine is named Violetta Valéry this time, is set in Venice. A story magnified by Verdi's music!
Venue: Abbaye de Neumunster (Salle Robert Krieps) in Luxembourg-Grund
Organiser: Italian Institute of Culture in Luxembourg
Price: Tickets cost €10;
Reservations: Reservations at www.ccrn.lu or tel: 262052-444.
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