Verdi La Traviata

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007 In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdis opera Violetta a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society organises a grand party that is attended amongst others by the young Alfredo Germont He confesses his feelings to Violetta who is already suffering from consumption She vacillates between genuine affection and a realistic assessment of her situation as a fallen woman which precludes any lasting relationship with a man