April 29 at 19:30
Teatru tal-Opra Aurora, Gozo (map)
After a forced absence of a few years,
live opera returns with La Traviata, which we proudly sponsor!
After the festival maintained its momentum with a number of online operatic series, Giuseppe Verdi‘s best-loved opera marks the return of live opera to Gaulitana: A Festival of Music and will indeed highlight the 16th edition of the festival.
A stellar cast features Ekaterina Bakanova, Francesco Meli and Piero Terranova in a production directed by Enrico Castiglione. The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and the Gaulitanus Choir complement the artists under the baton of Colin Attard.
La Traviata will be held under the distinguished patronage of H.E. George Vella, President of Malta and will once more provide a top “off-season” springtime operatic treat in Gozo: definitely not to be missed!
[source: https://gaulitanus.com/]
La Traviata, quite literally The Fallen Woman, recounts the story of a Parisian courtesan, who actually falls in love with a courtier, and then ends up dying of tuberculosis. In coming up with this masterpiece, Verdi has been quoted as saying he wanted something “of our own age”, and so it remains to this day. Despite this, he was still coerced into having it set a 100 years earlier. That’s how La Traviata came to be, with all those flamboyant choruses, parties and hearth-wrenching and soul-baring arias.
