Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Originally to be called Amore e morte - Love and Death - La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) was first performed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, in 1853. Verdi's ever-popular opera in three acts tells the story of hedonistic Parisian courtesan Violetta Valery as she falls first for the unobtainable Alfredo Germont, and then fatally ill with consumption. For 2012, Welsh National Opera ha…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:58AM on February 13, 2012