- Inszenierung – Benedikt von Peter
- Sinfonieorchester Basel
- Chor des Theater Basel
- Musikalische Leitung – Gregor Bühl
- Approx. 2 hours 30 minutes without a break
- Age recommendation: 12+
- In italiano, mit deutschen Übertiteln / with English surtitles
Cult production by Benedikt von Peter and Nicole Chevalier
As one of the most exciting singers of our time, Nicole Chevalier has been working with Verdi's ‹La traviata› for over fourteen years. At that time still a member of the ensemble in Hanover, Chevalier is now a guest at all the leading houses in Europe: Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden London, Opera de Paris, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg Festival and many more.
As Violetta, Nicole Chevalier stands and sings alone on the forestage, directly in front of the audience. The voices of the ensemble resound ghostly from the dark auditorium. Her Violetta becomes a symbol of the isolation that many of us have experienced ourselves - in the modern world, in romantic love. Chevalier's solo performance is a timeless study of loneliness, an emotional experience and a piece of living theater history.
For two and a half uninterrupted hours, Chevalier lends her voice and body to Violetta, driven by her love obsession - with every quivering fibre.
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- Musikalische Leitung –
- Inszenierung –
- Bühne –
- Kostüme –
- Lichtdesign –
- Chorleitung –
- Dramaturgie –
- Violetta Valéry –
- Flora Bervoix –
- Annina –
- Alfredo Germont –
- Giorgio Germont –
- Gastone / Giuseppe –
- Il Barone Douphol –
- Marchese d' Obigny –
- Dottore Grenvil / Commissionario –
- Chor des Theater Basel
- Statisterie Theater Basel
- Sinfonieorchester Basel
Tito Ceccherini prepares the ground for the soprano Chevalier with mysterious, flowing string sounds, spinning her singing along with warm clarinet and oboe lines. When it is sung and played like this, nothing else is needed on stage.
Nicole Chevalier is Violetta. The soprano had the role from the very beginning - she merges with the title character in a way that is rarely experienced. (...) How she moulds the notes, how she depicts her moods in vocal lines - sadness, enthusiasm, anger - how she shapes her great Scene ed Aria ('Sempre libera') in the first act is sensational.
Benedikt von Peter and Nicole Chevalier - you can only call them a double - turn a doomed woman, who clings to her last (and perhaps first) love like a straw, into a resistance fighter against the inevitable. (...) This Violetta Valéry sings as clearly when lying down as when standing up, dances balletically on pointe, sweeps across the stage like a whirlwind, even climbs over the theatre's rows of chairs.
Nicole Chevalier achieves the almost impossible with bravura. It is unbelievable how she manages to convey all the moods - joy, despair, sadness - and captivate the audience for 2 1/2 hours.