LA TRAVIATA (Glyndebourne Festival Opera)*****

 

By Megan

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcIwYTkaB0M

Available until: Sunday 29^th August 2021, 5pm

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is going ahead this year which is brilliant but they are still very kindly putting some of their previous productions on their YouTube channel for us to enjoy. Or get very sad about in this case.

La traviata is one of the best-known operas with really gorgeous, emotional music and a story which is easy to follow and which actually makes sense most of the time. (There are subtitles if you don’t speak Italian.) It is based on Alexandre Dumas fils’ novel La Dame aux Camélias. The opera is set in the past world of courtesans and consumption but I think it is very relatable to the present day. A lot of people know what it’s like to be separated from someone you love and I think the whole world knows how cruel illness can be.

LA TRAVIATA (Wiener Staatsoper)*****

  

By Louise 

Link: https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/9cf2fd88-22e0-429f-bd18-1fbb01629585/play

Available until: 9^th March at about 6pm

Most of the productions Wiener Staatsoper have been making available on their website are old productions which have been filmed, but every so often, they’ve been putting on new productions which are streamed live. Their Le nozze di Figaro a couple of weeks ago was really brilliant and so is La traviata.

MARGUERITE AND ARMAND (Royal Ballet/Royal Opera House)****

 

By Megan

Link: https://stream.roh.org.uk/packages/marguerite-and-armand-2017/videos/marguerite-and-armand-2017 £3

Available until: Sunday 14^th February 2021

Marguerite and Armand tells the same story as the opera La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. The ballet and the operas are both based on Alexander Dumas’ play La Dame aux camélias which means The Lady with the Camelias. Marguerite and Armand are the names given to the characters in the play and the names have been kept for the ballet.

LA TRAVIATA (Teatro Real Madrid/OperaVision)****

 

By Imogen

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SqpcFOchjA

Available until: 14^th May 2021

I’d never even heard of Teatro Real Madrid. If you’d asked me what it was I’d have guessed that it was the Bernabeu, the stadium where Real Madrid play, their theatre of dreams. Spain doesn’t exactly have a great operatic tradition. It is a very musical nation but there aren’t many operas written in Spanish. Even the ones with a Spanish feel like Carmen aren’t written in Spanish.