Violetta is about to die. Only Annina and Doctor Grenvil are by her side. In a letter from Germont, she has been told that Alfredo knows the truth about what has happened. He is now on his way back after a trip abroad...
Available until October 1.
la traviata
AVAILABLE UNTIL: APRIL 27
RUNNING TIME: 2 HRS 11 MINS TOTAL
OPERA | VERDI CLASSIC ON STAGE AND DIGITALLY
The end is near for Violetta Valéry. Her body is ravaged by tuberculosis. She lives hard and fast, and she greets every day as if it were her last. But her meeting with Alfredo awakens in her the hope of another life. Double standards and bigotry soon stand in the way of love. In the end Violetta has no alternative but to meet her fate.
La traviata is the story of a woman who chooses to follow her heart in a society controlled by conventions. After the premiere in Paris in 1852 it has become one of Verdi’s most frequently performed and beloved works. Ellen Lamm’s and Magdalena Åberg’s interpretation, which focuses on oppression and human bigotry, was first performed in 2019 with Ida Falk Winland in the title role. It was a huge success and recorded for cinema the same year.
Discover act 2 below!
AVAILABLE UNTIL APRIL 27, 2024.
LA TRAVIATA act 2
PREMIERE TALK La traviata
The Royal Swedish Opera's dramaturge, Katarina Aronsson, meets the team behind La traviata before the premiere: Ellen Lamm (director), Domingo Hindoyan (conductor) and Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor, Alfredo Germont).
Available until October 1.
From the archives -
ELEKTRA
Richard Strauss stuns the audience with his hair-raising drama about Elektra, obsessed with avenging her father’s murder. Based on Sophocles’ classic tragedy, Elektra it is a potent study in female rage, but also a moving account of a woman who has lost her footing. It is an emotional rollercoaster of blood and disaster, a high-tension saga from the first note to the last.
The raging one-act opera Elektra, written in 1909 and influenced by Sigmund Freud’s new ideas on family relationships and the subconscious, is the first collaboration realised by the iconic composer/librettist duo Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. This production is by Staffan Valdemar Holm, who has also directed the award-winning Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Royal Swedish Opera. A live reording from 2010 with the trio Marianne Eklöf (Klytaemnestra), Katarina Dalayman (Elektra) and Emma Vetter (Chrysothemis) in the leading parts. With ladies from the Royal Swedish Opera Chorus and the Royal Swedish Orchestra under the direction of Ralf Weikert. ”World class” said Swedish newspaper DN at the premiere in 2009!
AVAILABLE UNTIL MARCH 30, 2024.