Violetta Valéry
Final Performance is December 3
La Traviata
NEW SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PRODUCTION
By Giuseppe Verdi
Overview
Dates
November 11–December 3, 2022
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Price
Starting at $31
Run Time
Approximately 3 hours, including two intermissions
Language
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Libretto
Francesco Maria Piave
Her love was never for sale.
Fame. Power. Fortune. Violetta Valéry has it all as Paris’ most admired courtesan. But never has she allowed herself to experience true love. All that changes when a naive young man enters her Paris salon and offers her a romance full of tenderness and compassion. But can their love ever be free from the social stigmas of her past?
Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and chorus in Shawna Lucey's sumptuous new vision of Verdi's masterpiece—the first new production of La Traviata built by San Francisco Opera's own craftspeople since 1987.
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The Buzz
"Pretty Yende was the star of the evening... Looking like a younger sister of Naomi Campbell, this media favorite has everything needed to be the people’s Violetta of the twenty-first century."
-Opera News
Italian baritone Simone Piazzola, [...] "brought fluid and gorgeously sonorous vocal tone to the role Alfredo’s stern but loving father."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Power, ardor, conviction, and glorious sheen were the mainstays of towering tenor Jonathan Tetelman’s flawless vocalism."
-San Francisco Classical Voice
Synopsis
There was no place for love in Violetta Valéry’s life as a popular Paris courtesan. But then Alfredo Germont walked into her salon—turning both of their worlds upside down.
* San Francisco Opera Debut
Performances
November 11, 13, 16, 22, 25, 27, 30; December 3, 2022
Made Possible By
This production is made possible, in part, by Barbara A. Wolfe; Jerome L. and Thao N. Dodson; John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn; Burgess and Elizabeth Jamieson; the Edmund W. and Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Fund; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem; and the Thomas Tilton Production Fund.