Traviata – vous méritez un avenir meilleur (you deserve a better future)

Traviata – vous méritez un avenir meilleur

An overpowering and paradoxical perfume of dream and reality floats around La Traviata, as if the life and death of this so-called « errant » woman seem more real and more elusive than those of other opera heroines. It is with this perfume, composed of rare flower essences, of alcohols, of prescription drugs, of skins caressed, of seemingly odourless money, that Giuseppe Verdi deeply impregnated his musical material, just at the time when the perfume of the story of the courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died in 1847, six years before the opera was created in Venice, was evaporating.

In Traviata – You deserve a better future, the audience is invited into Violetta’s privacy to have a close look at the fire to which she abandons herself among the guests of this musical and phantasmagorical celebration that blends theatre and opera, voices that speak and sing, and where the distinction between the instrumentalists and the singers becomes blurred, where Charles Baudelaire is seated next to Christophe Tarkos, and where the phantoms of this Paris in full industrial boom whose future we are living at present, sing and die.

Traviata – vous méritez un avenir meilleur [DVD & Blu-ray]

A show by Benjamin Lazar, Florent Hubert and Judith Chemla
after La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
Sung in Italian with French dialogues

Violetta Valéry : Judith Chemla
Alfredo Germont : Damien Bigourdan
Giorgio Germont : Jérôme Billy
Flora Bervoix et Anina : Elise Chauvin
The Doctor : Florent Baffi
Violin : Marie Salvat
Cello : Myrtille Hetzel
Clarinet : Axelle Ciofolo
Contrabassa : Bruno Le Bris
Accordion : Gabriel Levasseur
Trombone : Sébastien Llado
Horn / Baron Douphol : Benjamin Locher

Conception : Benjamin Lazar, Florent Hubert and Judith Chemla
Stage direction : Benjamin Lazar
Arrangements and musical direction : Florent Hubert and Paul Escobar
Vocal coach : Alphonse Cemin
Scenography : Adeline Caron
Costumes : Julia Brochier
Lighting design : Maël Iger
Make-up and hairdressing : Mathilde Benmoussa
Assistant to the stage director : Juliette Séjourné
Assistants to the scenographer : Nicolas Brias and Fanny Commaretv