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Via Traviata – BodyOpera with Giuseppe Verdi Stuttgart 2022
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Via Traviata - BodyOpera with Giuseppe Verdi
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Volkshochschule Stuttgart, Germany
- Recorded: April 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Ileana Cotrubas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes
- Conductor: Carlos Kleiber
- Orchestra: Bayerisches Staatsorchester
- Ballet: Tanztheater Katja Erdmann-Rajski
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: volkshochschule stuttgart
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Via Traviata is still uninhabited. Not a single building lines the path yet. Especially not a prohibition sign. Nothing is certain. Only the wind sweeps through the empty alley and whistles to itself. Sure, Verdi’s »La Traviata«. It’s just a hit. It attracts a few dancers who stroll down the empty street dancing. They dare to experiment. Every step she takes, every movement makes the music more visible – spatially, physically, sensually. People interested in dancing join them. More and more passers-by. Forget their spectator role and get involved. Together they develop a dance-like cartography of this now lively Via Traviata. Prepare the way to a new BodyOpera. But that’s not how I imagined my opera to be, you can hear Giuseppe say – with a clear Italian accent. Exactly, the dancing bodies reply