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Verdi

Great Classics

7, 9 and 10 AUG | 21h00

Convento da Cartuxa, Caxias

Opera in 3 Acts
Sung in Italian
PT and EN subtitles
Duration: 2h20
M12

In the imposing and religious scenography of the cloisters of the Convento da Cartuxa in Caxias, which are hosting an opera for the first time, one of the greatest operas of all time by the extraordinary Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi is presented. La Traviata, or the misguided one, based on the novel "The Lady of the Camellias" by Alexandre Dumas, tells us about the forbidden love of the courtesan Violetta for Alfredo, which she ends up expiating with her own death. The stigma of the lost woman, socially condemned. The tragedy of a love that social constraints and illness cause to fall apart, with the most sublime music. Never before had Verdi entered such an intimate sphere of the characters. A luxurious cast and the staging of actor and director David Pereira Bastos, who after his acclaimed staging of Puccini's "Suor Angelica" at Operafest 2023, embraces this great opera by Verdi, under the baton of maestro Osvaldo Ferreira accompanied by the Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra.

Musical director: Osvaldo Ferreira
Stage Director: David Pereira Bastos
Set Design: Daniela Cardante
Costumes: Francisco Sampaio
Lightning Design: Sérgio Moreira

Cast
Violeta Valery: Darija Auguštan
Alfredo Germont: Ermin Ašćerić
Giorgio Germont: Christian Luján
Gastone: Luís Caetano
Barone: Nuno Fonseca
Dottore Grenvil: Luís Mayer-Bento
Flora Bervoix: Alexandra Calado
Annina: Laura Matadinho

Operafest Chorus
Direction: Filipa Palhares

Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra
Co-production: Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra

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