The Met’s La Traviata Encores At The Grand

Ellsworth, Maine - The New York Metropolitan Opera’s series of Hi Def encores continues at The Grand with Verdi’s “La Traviata,” starring Natalie Dessay as Violetta on Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 at 7pm with a running time of 3 hrs, 7 min and 1 intermission.

The German director Willy Decker’s strikingly beautiful production, a hit when it premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2005, is revived at the Met with soprano Natalie Dessay. “Violetta is an outlaw,” Decker says. “Society shuts her out and looks down on her as a person without feeling, without love. But the further you look into the piece, you see that it’s the other way around: she is the only person in the opera who truly loves, selflessly. Verdi follows her like an obsessed lover throughout the piece, and by the end, our sympathy too is completely on her side.”

Joining Dessay and Decker in bringing “La Traviata” to life is the American tenor Matthew Polenzani as Violetta’s smitten lover Alfredo and the internationally acclaimed Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Alfredo’s father Germont. Sets and costumes are by Wolfgang Gussmann and lighting by Hans Toelstede. Athol Farmer choreographs the production with principle conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.

So bring a friend and share the experience of a revived production the New York Times called “an involving and theatrically daring production that belongs at the Met” as The Grand presents an HD encore of “La Traviata” on Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 at 7pm.

Tickets are $15 General Admission.  Call The Grand box office for tickets, or purchase online at www.grandonline.org.

The Grand is pleased to present a series high-definition encore productions of The New York Metropolitan Opera this summer, concluding with Verdi’s “La Traviata” on July 17th. Watch out for news of next year’s season, as well as our full schedule at www.grandonline.org. Or find The Grand on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Grand-Auditorium/112755987339.

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