La traviata – ‘Sempre libera’ (Renée Fleming, Den kongelige Opera)

Royal Opera House offentliggjort på Mar 23, 2015
Renée Fleming as Violetta Valéry sings Sempre Libera (Altid gratis) from Verdi’s opera La traviata. Violeta debatter om hun elsker Alfredo (Joseph Calleja) – hørt her scenen – men konkluderer hun skal være gratis.

‘A toast to the pleasures of life!’ – so sings Violetta, her new admirer Alfredo and her party guests in the opening scene of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. But beneath the surface glamour of Violetta’s Parisian life run darker undercurrents: her doomed love for Alfredo and the tensions the lovers encounter when they break society’s conventions. La traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas fils’s play La Dame aux camélias, is one of Verdi’s most popular operas, kombinere drama, dybe følelser og vidunderlige melodier.