The series' Wednesday Opera continues today with the screening, at 21.30 hours in the courtyard of the Museo de Santa Clara, the work of Giuseppe Verdi 'La Traviata'.
'La Traviata' is the third and final opera of the so-called "popular trilogy" that begins the period of maturity of Verdi (which belong to 'Rigoletto' and 'Il Trovatore'), and is one of the most beloved operas by Italian composer .
It is based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camelias.
It is an intimate psychological drama of nature divided into three acts by Giuseppe Verdi music and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, which tells the love story of the heroine, Violetta Valery, and her lover Alfredo Germont.
The play was a failure at its premiere in 1856 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, presenting scenes of everyday life stories rather than nobles or rulers.
In this production that the film today, Pier Luigi Pizza has acclimated the work in Nazi-occupied Paris, where the characters have the sensation of living daily in a permanent state of war, which fuels his passion, which alone what they can hold, all seen as through a black and white film.
Admission is free until all seats.
Source: CARM