With flamboyant, hedonistic abandon, Violetta’s life as an up-market courtesan whirls her through the ballrooms and bedrooms of vibrant Parisian high society and, as she recovers from a bout of ...
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Rigoletto, one of 26 operas by Giuseppe Verdi, first took to the stage in 1851 and today rides high in the Top Ten most performed operas worldwide. The busy plot revolves around a mocked and maligned ...
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The courtesan, with a heart of gold, nobly sacrificing herself for the man she loves and dying of consumption, is the very stuff of which romantic dramas are made. La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) was a ...
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Giuseppe Verdi knew his opera of love, war, revenge and death was old-fashioned but he also knew that old-fashioned 19th century audiences loved arias, romantic melodramas and songs lavished with melo ...
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