Conductor: Christofer Macatsoris with the AVA Opera Orchestra
Stage Director: Jeffrey Marc Buchman
April 21 – May 5, 2018
The La traviata WRTI 90.1 broadcast takes place on Sunday, April 29 at 3 PM
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Plagued by sickness, Violetta finds love in Alfredo, but before long they are torn apart by betrayal. A “fallen woman”, she is forced to abandon her lover, until the truth comes out and they are reunited, if only for a moment.
One of opera’s enduringly popular classics, Verdi’s La traviata has thrilled Philadelphia audiences with the tragic love story of Alfredo and Violetta for 160 years. This season Jeffrey Marc Buchman (who directed AVA’s recent productions of Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte) returns as stage director with Maestro Christofer Macatsoris leading the AVA Opera Orchestra.
April 21, 24, 26 and 28, 2018 at 7:30 PM Helen Corning Warden Theater, AVA
7:30 PM, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 Centennial Hall, The Haverford School, 450 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041. All seats are assigned for this performance
7:30 PM, May 5, 2018 at Tohickon Middle School, Bucks County, 5051 Old Easton Rd, Doylestown, PA 18902 – for tickets for this performance, please call AVA at 215-735-1685 or 215-862-2526. Tickets are $50 for this performance.
Violetta Valéry – Vanessa Vasquez, Alexandra Razskazoff, Meryl Dominguez
Flora Bervoix – Pascale Spinney
Marchese D’Obigny – Brent Michael Smith
Barone Douphol – Nathan Milholin
Dr. Grenvil – Daniel Noyola
Gastone – Anthony Whitson-Martini
Alfredo Germont – Oliver Sewell, Roy Hage
Annina – Gabriela Flores
Giuseppe – Daniel Gallegos
Giorgio Germont – Timothy Renner, Lukasz Zientarski
Commissionario – Matthew White
Un uomo – Matthew White
Chorus – Resident Artists
Violetta Valéry– Meryl Dominguez
Alfredo Germont – Oliver Sewell
Giorgio Germont – Timothy Renner
Production photos by Don Valentino
Sponsored with a generous gift from Judith Broudy