La traviata

As a successful courtesan, Violetta maintains a salon in Paris attended by both aristocratic and bourgeois societies. Finding herself attracted to a younger man, Alfredo, and aware of the fact that she is suffering from debilitating tuberculosis, she reacts by proclaiming her independence in the tour-de-force aria Sempre Libera. We then find Violetta decided to give in to her feelings for Alfredo and leaves Paris for the country, where she (in op...