La traviata – ‘Sempre libera’ (Renée Fleming, The Royal Opera)

Royal Opera House Published on Mar 23, 2015
Renée Fleming as Violetta Valéry sings Sempre Libera (Njalo Free) from Verdi’s opera La traviata. Violeta mpikiswano ngabe uthanda Alfredo (Joseph Calleja) – wezwa lapha bengekho enkundleni – kodwa uphetha aludingayo ukukhululeka.

‘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, drama oluhlanganisayo, imizwelo profound nemiculo emangalisayo.