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La traviata / Addio del passato

Kristina Mkhitaryan stars in the lead role as Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata, with Andriy Yurkevych conducting a new production by Ole Anders Tandberg.

"A voice to die for" - Bergens Tidende 

LA TRAVIATA 
Opera in three acts

Giuseppe Verdi / Music
Francesco Maria Piave / Libretto

CREATIVE TEAM
Andriy Yurkevych / Conductor
Ole Anders Tandberg / Stage director
Ann-Terese Aasen / Choreographer
Erlend Birkeland / Set designer
Maria Geber / Costume designer
Clement Irbil / Lighting designer
Håkon Matti Skrede / Chorus master

CAST
Kristina Mkhitaryan / Violetta Valéry
Liparit Avetisyan / Alfredo Germont
Kostas Smoriginas / Giorgio Germont
Christina Jønsi / Flora
Álvaro Zambrano / Gastone
Mikael Horned / Barone Douphol
Magne Fremmerlid / Marchese d'Obigny
Ludvig Lindström / Dottore Grenvil
Melissa Baug / Annina
Christopher Cardoso / Death
Tyler Ray / Giuseppe, Violetta's servant
David Hansford / Commissioner
Ørjan Hartveit / A servant

SILENT ROLE
Hanna Bergtun / Young Violetta

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Choir

Sung in Italian, surtitles in Norwegian and English

A new production by Bergen National Opera.
Presented by Bergen National Opera in collaboration with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edvard Grieg Choirs

Sound by Nobel Lyd
Video by Max Thillaye


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