"La Traviata"

Franco Zeffirelli

Cine-Opera

8 SEP | 19h30

Cinemateca Portuguesa

With Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeill

Italy, 1981 - 110 min
Electronically subtitled in Portuguese | M/12

La Traviata, one of Verdi's most beautiful operas, is brought to the big screen by Franco Zeffirelli, an opera producer and director of film adaptations of literary classics (such as Shakespeare), accompanied by the baton of James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera. Starring soprano Teresa Stratas and tenor Plácido Domingo, the story is taken from another classic, Alexandre Dumas's The Lady of the Camellias, about the illicit love between a courtesan and a young bourgeois, whose relationship is disrupted by his father for the sake of the family's place in French society. These are the tragic traits that inevitably and inexorably recur in LA TRAVIATA, where Zeffirelli's talent for art direction and eye for costume design lead him to create a world that is luxurious yet unobtrusive, placing the focus firmly on the performers and their voices. The director uses the 1958 staging he did with Maria Callas in Dallas, Texas, to show us the narrative outcome first, with the opera's three acts as a flashback. One of Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite films.

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