Info

• Tue 18 Nov
• 107 minutes

Synopsis

We have made a film of La Traviata. We have chosen one of the repertoire’s most famous and best loved works because it has wonderful, accessible, music and a simple, moving, love story. We take it out of the great opera houses and bring it into a new light. This is not live capture, but a new approach to delivering opera in a different way.

We reimagine Verdi’s opera, originally designed for a large romantic orchestra and huge chorus, as an intimate love story. There is a chorus, and dancers, and an orchestra - none other than the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, led by Jacqueline Shave - but we want to get to the bare bones of this remarkable tale. Developing the relationship between singer and camera, we draw the audience into the heart of the piece. Exploring its emotional canvas in this way we still honour the wonderful, heightened, theatrical world in which Violetta and Alfredo and Germont play out their drama.