La traviata
By: Verdi ; from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; director, Richard Eyre ; designer Bob Crowley ; directed for television by Humphrey Burton and Peter Maniura ; a BBC/Covent Garden Pioneer FSP/Royal Opera House co-production ; made in association with the Decca Record Company Limited
Contributors: Lopardo, Frank, performer; Nucci, Leo, performer; Solti, Georg, 1912-1997, conductor; Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876; Pleydell-Bouverie, Jane; Marks, Stephany; Van Allan, Richard; Leggate, Robin; Earle, Roderick; Beesley, Mark, 1961-; Jones, Leah-Marian; Knight, Gillian; Kalman, Jean; Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895; Camerini, Silvia; Royal Opera House (London, England); British Broadcasting Corporation; Covent Garden Pioneer; Decca Record Company
Publisher: Decca
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London, England
Language: ita
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Drama; Courtesans; Operas; Man-woman relationships
Description: "This famous performance of Verdi's romantic tragedy captures one of the most sensational debuts in operatic history. Singing Violetta for the first time was the young Romanian soprano, Angela Gheorghiu, whose remarkable interpretation reached the front pages of the world's press and led the BBC immediately to film the production"--Container.
Notes: Opera.

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after the novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.

"Video aspect ratio: 4:3"--Container.

Program notes by Silvia Camerini and synopsis in English, French, and German (23 p.) inserted in container.

Producers, Stephany Marks and Jane Pleydell-Bouverie ; stage lighting, Jean Kalman ; camera supervisor, James Day ; television production manager, Sophie Bevan-Thomas ; engineering manager, Barry Luckhurst ; videotape editor, Steve Eveleigh.

Angela Gheorhiu, soprano ; Frank Lopardo, tenor ; Leo Nucci, baritone ; Richard Van Allan, Robin Leggate, Roderick Earle, Mark Beesley, Leah-Marian Jones, Gillian Knight ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor.

Recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dec. 1994.

DVD video; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound; LPCM stereo.

Sung in Italian with subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, and Chinese.