Overture: LA TRAVIATA OVERTURE OPERA GUIDE W9 [2018] paperback CURAF unencumbered by the trappings of

unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you

the authors reveal the moves

It is the story of our past hundred years here in Britain

As we emerge from the unprecedented disruption of a global pandemic

As each member of this strange love triangle tells their side of what happened

Overture: LA TRAVIATA OVERTURE OPERA GUIDE W9 [2018] paperback CURAF unencumbered by the trappings of'La Traviata' was Giuseppe Verdi's eighteenth opera and shows him at the height of his middle period powers. Adapted from 'La Dame aux Camelias' by Alexandre Dumas fils, it portrays the love between the courtesan Violetta Valery and the young Alfredo Germont in fashionable Parisian society, with its inevitable tragic outcome. It had its premiere at La Fenice in Venice in 1853 and has gone on to become one of the most performed and greatly loved of all