La Traviata

Please note, this is a film of La Traviata and not a Live and Recorded Screening.

La Traviata
Dirs Eliza Thompson/Selina Cadell, UK, 2025, 117 mins, Italian libretto with subtitles
Susana Gaspar, Thomas Elwin, Roderick Williams

Parisian courtesan Violetta falls in love with Alfredo but faces trials due to societal pressures and illness, leading ultimately to tragedy. An immersive production of Verdi’s classic that sustains the theatricality while using the intimacy of the lens to tell the story. With a world class cast, a team of Matthew Bourne’s dancers and a score recorded with the Royal National Scottish Orchestra.

The camera becomes a confidant and an interrogator, in an opera in which no one tells the whole truth THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT