_____________________________________________________________ VERDI LA TRAVIATA LORIN MAAZEL LILIANA CAVANI TEATRO ALLA SCALA www.musicom.it LA TRAVIATA ________________________________________________________________________________ PLAYBILL Teatro alla Scala, July 2007 Opera and Ballet Season 2006-2007 LA TRAVIATA Melodramma in tre atti Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Music by Giuseppe Verdi Edition BMG Ricordi, Music Publishing spa, Milano Stage Production Teatro alla Scala Premiere: Venezia, Teatro La Fenice, March 6, 1853 Conductor Lorin Maazel Chorus Master Bruno Casoni Director Liliana Cavani Renewal by Marina Bianchi Set Designer Dante Ferretti Costume Designer Gabriella Pescucci Choreographer Micha van Hoecke Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala Characters and Performers Violetta Valéry (soprano) Angela Gheorghiu Alfredo Germont (tenor) Ramón Vargas Giorgio Germont (baritone) Roberto Frontali Flora Bervoix (mezzo-soprano) Natascha Petrinsky Annina (soprano) Tiziana Tramonti Gastone (tenor) Enrico Cossutta Barone Douphol (baritone) Alessandro Paliaga Marchese d’Obigny (bass) Piero Terranova Dottor Grenvil (bass) Luigi Roni Giuseppe (tenor) Nicola Pamio Domestico di Flora (bass) Giuseppe Nicodemo Commissionario (bass) Ernesto Panariello Dance Soloist Gianni Ghisleni MESIA CONTENTS AND CREDITS DVD «IL TEMPO GIUDICHERÀ» Verdi uomo e maestro. Gli anni della Traviata With Philip Gossett Visual Journey by Elvio Annese and Roberto San Pietro In collaboration with ipotesICinema Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) LA TRAVIATA HIGHLIGHTS* Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala Conductor Lorin Maazel Director Liliana Cavani ROM CONTENTS Between Novel and Reality: Telling the Story of La traviata by Carlo Bianchi Looking for Violetta by Mario Marcarini Verdi’s La traviata: Study Guide for Secondary Schools by Carlo Delfrati La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils (French, English, Italian) The Life of the Lady of the Camellias by Georges Soreau Synopsis and Libretto (Italian, English, French) MP3 Audio Files of the Complete Opera EXTRAS La dame sans titre, A Short Film by Andrea Franceschini Trailer CD Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) LA TRAVIATA * Live recording (*) Rai Director Paola Longobardo Assistant Cristina Lubiani Photo Director Riccardo De Poli Production Director Salvatore Bucca Delegated of Production Manuela Scifoni Music Consultants Giovanni Primavesi, Walter Frazzi Editors Samantha Roberts, Carlo Bertucci Audio Edition Gabriele Fanchini Music Recording Rai - Direzione Radiofonia Production Organization Pietro Panzeri Audio Recording Guglielmina De Toffol Production Specialized Antonio Topolino MEDIA PROJECT AND CREDITS Project and Marketing Nimax S.r.l. Artistic Supervisor Philip Gossett Artistic Coordinator Federico Fornoni Production Coordinator Saveria Raimondi Production Assistants Francesco Marrella, Francesca Zambelli Denoising and Remastering Diversified Technologies S.r.l. Authoring Impronte Digitali S.r.l. Subtitles Synchronization Fabiola D’Alessandro Original Graphic Concept FG Confalonieri DVD Menu Graphic akòmi srl Web Project Diego Paroni, Simetra S.r.l. Series Naming Clerici e Associati S.r.l. Photographic References Photos Marco Brescia © Teatro alla Scala ℗ & © 2013 Musicom.it S.r.l. Milano © 2013 Intesa Sanpaolo