SUMMER SONATA: A FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS

Curated by Sunit Tandon and Samaresh Chatterji

Verdi: La Traviata | (132 min; 2005; dvd; English subtitles)

With Anna Netrebko (Violetta Valery); Rolando Villazón (Alfredo Germont); Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont)
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Mozarteum Orchestra (Stage Music)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi

A stellar opera event of 2005, the Salzburg Festival’s production of Verdi’s classic in a dramatic modern staging by Willy Decker. This is the thrilling production that prompted riotous ovations at its first presentation. The opera tells the story of the tragic love between the courtesan Violetta and the romantic Alfredo Germont. Played out against the hypocrisy of upper-class fashionable society, Alfredo and Violetta's love threatens to shame his family.

Introduced by Samaresh Chatterji