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SUMMARY:Lyric Opera Presents: LA TRAVIATA
DESCRIPTION:Lyric Opera Virginia 2011-2012 Season La TraviataAn Opera
  in Three Acts by Giuseppe Verdi, text by Francesco Maria Piave, after
  Alexandre Duma’s play La Dame aux Camélias\nFriday, September 9  
 8PM\nSunday, September 11  2:30PM Performed in Italian with English 
 Supertitles The scene of the opera is Paris and vicinity, 1850  Perf
 ormances will be presented with two intermissions.\n\nSYNOPSIS OF LA T
 RAVIATA\nVioletta Valery, a beautiful young courtesan, is having a par
 ty in her elegant Parisian home.  Among the guests is Alfredo Germont
 , the son of a wealthy family and a long time secret admirer of Violet
 ta.   The guests are invited to dinner. During the meal, another ad
 mirer, Baron Douphol, mutters to Violetta’s friend Flora that he has
  insintinctive dislike for Alfredo. When someone calls for a toast dur
 ing dinner, Alfredo rises to the occasion with the familiar and belove
 d “Libiamo,” He looks at Violetta as he sings and she responds to 
 his toast., but during the dancing which follows she grows faint—the
  first indication that she is seriously ill-- and leaves the room.  A
 lfredo follows her and declares his love but she tries to convince him
  that she offers only friendship and the hospitality for which she is 
 famous.  She gives him a flower and tells him she will be glad to let
  him see her again when it fades. As the other guests leave the party
 , Violetta muses on her choice of a hectic social life but forces hers
 elf to stop thinking of more serious involvements.\nLater, Alfredo and
  Violetta are living together in her country home.  His father, Germo
 nt, enters and confronts Violetta.  He is surprised by her calm and i
 ntelligent  demeanor but then begs her to stop seeing his son, becaus
 e Alfredo’s sister is planning a very good marriage and he is concer
 ned that the bridegroom’s family may object to the match because of 
 Alfredo’s liaison with a known courtesan.  He begs her to give him 
 up.  Weeping, she agrees for the sake of the innocent young bride, an
 d then Germont asks her to tell Alfredo that she no longer loves.  He
 artbroken, she agrees and then writes a letter to Alfredo, to be given
  to him after she leaves.  He is furious at her actions.  Later at a
  party in Paris, Alfredon confronts her furiously and, in front of the
  all the guests,  throws money at her, shouting that he is paying her
  back for her favors.\n\nAt the end,  Violetta lies dying of consumpt
 ion in a modest apartment in Paris.  Now penniless and alone, she sin
 gs a farewell to the world.  Suddenly Alfredo rushes in, having been 
 told of her sacrifice by his father.  They sing a tender duet about t
 he future he envisions and then Violetta suddenly feels better and ris
 es from her bed saying she has recovered, only to die moments later in
  Alfredo’s arms.\n\n\n\n\nFor more information visit https://vbnight
 life.com/events/lyric-opera-presents-la-traviata
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 irginia beach opera", "virginia beach live performance", "local opera"
LOCATION:Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
WEBSITE:http://www.lyricoperavirginia.org/index.html
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