Soprano Noluvuyiso Mpofu received a cheering standing ovation at the opening night of La Traviata at Artscape Opera House. A dazzling start to the season ending on 9 May.
Verdi’s La Traviata is presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with UCT Opera School with the UCT Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kamal Khan and directed by Angelo Gobbato. The opera will have multiple casts during the short season. The opening night performance was rapturously received and Noluvuyiso Mpofu was in thrilling form!
The Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas’ story of the courtesan with the heart of gold, has invited countless theatrical and filmic adaptations from Greta Garbo’s Camille to Julia Roberts’s Pretty Woman.
Its themes – the right of a human being to live as he or she sees fit, the right to love in the manner that the individual chooses, and the resulting potential for society’s calamitous ‘moral’ interference – still jump at us from newspapers all over the world.
These are the central animators of Verdi’s La Traviata, an Italian opera with a Parisian subtlety which reached previously unscaled artistic heights, where grace, intimacy, passion, and a relentless quest for theatrical and emotional honesty combine to tell the remarkable story of Violetta Valery with unforgettable melodies.
A perennial favourite of audiences and performers, Kamal Khan and Angelo Gobbato lead multiple casts of exceptionally talented students through Verdi’s emotional testament.
WHERE: Artscape Opera House, D F Malan St, Foreshore, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: Saturday 2 May @ 18h00, Wednesday 6 May @ 19h30, Friday 8 May @ 19h30, Saturday 9 May @18h00
TICKETS: R125, R200 & R250 Book at Computicket
Presented by Cape Town Opera in collaboration with UCT Opera School
UCT Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Kamal Khan Director: Angelo Gobbato Designer: Michael Mitchell Lighting: Faheem Bardien Choreography: Sean Bovim
