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La traviata - Week 6

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Welcome students and teachers to Opera Online! This is our last week to review La traviata before the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s production which premiers on Friday May 7th with the Student dress rehearsal as soon as this coming Wednesday, May 5th!

YouTube Clip of the Week

As it's our last week we have two great clips of the week!

On Saturday, April 24th, the Opera Company of Philadelphia teamed up with the Reading Terminal Market Italian Festival for a large-scale "Flash Opera" event! Over 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and principal cast members of La traviata performed the famed "Brindisi" in the aisles of Reading Terminal Market, entertaining hundreds of Philadelphians, and proving that the perfect accompaniment for all things Italian is a little Verdi! If you missed out on this historical event check out the video below!






Clips from San Francisco’s production of La traviata

Similar to The Opera Company of Philadelphia’s production, San Francisco’s La traviata is set in the Jazz Age. In this clip, Anna Netrebko sings the role of Violetta, Dwayn Croft is Germont and Charles Castronovo sings Alfredo. Charles will also be singing Alfredo in The Opera Company of Philadelphia’s production of La traviata and you'll see him this Wednesday at the student dress rehearsal!





Web Site of the Week

What was it like to live in the 1920's? Learn about Flappers, Fashion, Music, Politics, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the following Depression years. Discover what it was like to live under Prohibition or how to dance the Charleston. View the rapid progress made in transportation by automobiles, trains, ocean liners, airships and airplanes. All this and more can be found on 1920-30.com

Violetta’s fatal illness in our opera is consumption, the disease haunted humanity for thousands of years and is now know to us as Tuberculosis or TB. To find out more about this disease visit this website.



Opera on the Air

On Saturday, April 24th WRTI radio broadcasts the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s Armida conducted by Riccardo Frizza. The role of Armida is sung by world renowned soprano Renee Fleming. Lawrence Brownlee is Rinaldo, John Osborn is Goffredo, José Manuel Zapata is Gernando , Barry Banks is Carlo and Kobie Van Rensburg sings the role of Ubaldo.

You're Invited!

Come to A Taste of Opera, a free opera recital on Sunday, May 2nd at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at 118 N. Broad Street for a free all-Verdi recital. Guests include baritone Troy Cook (who recently sang Sharpless in our production of Madama Butterfly), and La traviata cast members Kirsten MacKinnon and Christopher Tiesi. Admission to the museum and the recital is free! Please rsvp by sending your name, address, and number attending to outreach@operaphila.org.

Don't forget to invite your friends to sign up to receive these alerts by emailing their name, school, and age to us at outreach@operaphila.org.

Until next week…
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