Music Composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
La Traviata
FGO - Florida Grand Opera, November 11, 12, 14, 2023, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, Dolores and Sanford Ziff Ballet Opera House.
November 30, December 02, Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Au-Rene Theater.
Creative Team
Stage Director– Chía Patiño
Conductor – Joe Illick
Assistant Conductor – Matthew Cooperman
Chorus Master – Jared Peroune
Choreographer – Rosa Mercedes
Production – Utah Opera
Scenic Designer – Peter Dean Beck
Costume Designer – Allen Charles Klein
Lighting Designer – Rick Fisher
Wig and Makeup Designer – Sue Sittko Schaefer
Cast
Violetta Valéry – Cecilia Violetta López
Alfredo Germont – Pavel Petrov
Giorgio Germont – Troy Cook
Gastone de Letorieres – Joseph McBrayer
Baron Douphol – Joseph Canuto Leon
Marchese D’Obigny – José Vazquez
Doctor Grenville – Keith Klein
Flora Bervoix – Taylor-Alexis DuPont
Annina – Sara Kennedy
Giuseppe – Miguel Llerena
Messenger – Darren Littman
Flora’s Servant – Enrique Estrada
FGO opens a transition season with a fresh and impassioned “Traviata”
Chia Patiño’s production was consistently compelling, presenting the story mostly in a straightforward manner but with a few new twists. The relationship between Violetta and Baron Douphol was front and center from the opera’s beginning rather than a reaction to abandoning Alfredo. In the final act, Violetta hallucinates the carnival partiers coming into her bedroom and Alfredo appearing among the crowd.