La Traviata...
A beautiful opera,
the most beautiful opera from Guiseppi Verdi.
He’s the composer of the soul.
The music is simple,
but in this simplicity you can find
very deep things.
The music is so passionate,
so beautiful,
that you can never forgot Traviata.
This opera begins at 90 miles an hour.
The opera begins
at a party by Violetta.
It's not just any party,
it’s a comeback party.
She has been very ill for over a year.
She lives in a big house,
she's a courtesan,
she has money, but it's not her money.
Alfredo is in paris,
in love with this girl,
but he never has the chance to talk to her.
And thanks to his friend Gastone,
for the first time he's invited in this big party,
of this high society in Paris,
and he has the chance to talk to her.
It’s a tricky thing between Violetta and Alfredo
when they are trying to tease each other
with a word, with phrases.
And suddenly there's a spark between them you see,
and that’s how their relationship begins.
Her whole life is turned upside down
by this love of Alfredo,
and the possibility
that she could fall in love with somebody real.
You’re always wanting to abandon yourself to him,
but you resist all the time,
you abandon, you resist...
Her right eye says yes, and her left eye says no.
The curtain goes up on Act II,
and shes living an absolutely
domestic life
in a house in the country, with Alfredo.
I don't know how it happened.
She dreamed about this...
Because she's from the countryside,
she used to live in the countryside,
without this glamourous life,
and now she feels like a real woman.
Well...
That’s not going to last, ladies and gentleman.
Germont - Alfredo's father,
arrives full of preconceptions,
about who she is and what the nature of their relationship is.
When he comes,
immediately he comes and he has just one thing in his head,
I come to Violetta,
she's a prostitute,
I don’t want to see her any more,
she has to leave my son, she has to leave my family,
and I don’t want to see her anymore.
He didn’t give her a chance.
But after conversations,
she understands that...
his father really loves Alfredo,
and...
Giorgio Germont...
understood that she really loves him.
It’s a really conflicted feeling that he has inside him,
that’s why this duo is so...
...is so beautiful.
The scene
between Violetta,
and Germont,
has to be one of the miracles of the opera.
I mean, to me this scene is the opera.
But I have to say,
it's not just Verdi's score,
it's also because
she is one of the most moving characters
in the Opera repertoire.
She has a lot of facets...
...of her character.
And it is very interesting,
very exciting.
The focus of Verdi was on her,
and I think he didn’t do it wrong, because...
it’s the reason why the Opera is so beautiful.