The Sands Centre hosts Verdi’s La Traviata (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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The Sands Centre hosts Verdi’s La Traviata
3:00pm Sunday 8th January 2012 in Stage
ELLEN Kent Productions returns to Carlisle's The Sands Centre on Sunday, March 4 (7.30pm) with the classic Verdi opera, La Traviata, starring international sopranos Rosa Lee Thomas and Elena Dee.
A tragic tale of searing passion and memorable music, La Traviata is Verdi’s outstanding interpretation of one of the most popular love stories of the 19th Century, La dame aux Camelias. Based on a true story, it tells of the passionate consumptive Violetta. There are many echoes of Verdi’s own life in Traviata and he threw himself into the music. The highlights include the Brindisi, the best known drinking song in opera, the duet Un Di Felice and Violetta’s haunting aria Addio Del Passato.
The magnificent production features the internationally acclaimed Ukrainian National Opera of Kharkiv, a highly-praised chorus, full orchestra laced with sumptuous sets and costumes.
Box office 01228-633766.
