La traviata

Verdi's most frequently performed opera, about the life, love, suffering, and death of a courtesan in 19th-century Paris, strikes a chord deep within. Violetta Valéry lives in the luxury of being kept by courtesans, but she is suffering from tuberculosis. Only Alfredo Germont, for whose love Violetta ultimately abandons her old life, notices. But the past catches up with Violetta: Alfredo's father demands that she break up with his son to save th...