Organization

Conductor

Brian Castles-Onion

Set designer

Brian Thomson

Costume designer

Tess Schofield

Lighting designer

John Rayment

Choreographer

Stephen Baynes

Sound designer

Tony David Cray

Singer

Soprano

Emma Matthews

Violetta Valery

Tenor

Gianluca Terranova

Alfred Germont

Baritone

Jonathan Summers

George Germont

Margaret Plummer

Flora Bervoix

Martin Buckingham

Gaston

James Clayton

The Baron Douphol

Bass

Christopher Hillier

The Marquis of Obigny

John Bolton Wood

The doctor Grenvil

Mezzo-soprano

Sarah Sweeting

Annina

Samuel Sakker

Giuseppe

Tom Hamilton

Commissioner

Richard Mitchell

Flora's Servant

Stage director

Francesca Zambello

Opera Australia

Orchestra

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Italian

La Traviata -  (La traviata)

Melbourne

Australia

Royal Botanic Gardens

The breathtaking Sydney Harbour serves as a backdrop for a rich and unique staging of an Italian opera masterpiece, inspired by a classic of French literature! Opera Australia invite you to join them for a riveting production of Verdi's La Traviata in a superb mise en scène by Francesca Zambello, which brings the fashion of 1880s Paris to meet the extravagance of metropolitan Australia in the middle of Mardi Gras festivities.

Onstage, we have the great fortune of spending time with star soprano Emma Matthews in the role of Violetta Valery, a popular courtesan who falls in love with the well-bred Alfredo Germont (a brilliant Gianluca Terranova). But Alfredo's father Giorgio, played by the excellent Jonathan Summers, has a vested interest in controlling the romantic liaisons of his son and heir, and does not approve of their entanglement... The pitch-perfect melodrama is adapted from La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas.

Violetta is the life of every party. A courtesan with a heart of gold, she’s free and free-spirited. Could a little love change everything?


Experience the joy and heartache of the world’s most popular opera and the magic of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. This timeless story plays out on a giant mirrored stage over the water, with the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge acting as the backdrop. A 3.5-tonne chandelier shimmers with 10,000 crystals, and fireworks light up the night sky.



Emma Matthews plays Violetta, scaling the thrilling heights of Verdi’s score, opposite Italian tenor Gianluca Terranova as Alfredo, the man Violetta falls dangerously in love with.



Verdi’s score offers flying melodies, rousing drinking songs and heartbreaking duets, brought to life in director Francesca Zambello’s spectacular and stylish production. Brian Castles-Onion conducts the opera, with a live orchestra hidden under the stage.

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