La Traviata

L and I had a night at the opera to see La Traviata in Leeds. We enjoyed the Statler and Waldorf seats and were gripped and enchanted by an excellent performance and story telling.

drmackems Opera Primer
Boy meets girl
No start again...

Girls contracts consumption/TB
Boy meets girl
Lust followed by love
A powerful man intervenes (this time boys father) to interrupt the course of true love
Shinanigans
Boy returns to death bed scene
Duet
Girls dies of said tuberculum and exhaustion from singing for 3 hours.

La Traviata which means the fallen women, here Hyi Yeun Lee plays Violeta opposite fellow Korean Ji-Min Park. They were both utterly splendid and engaging. You don't have to travel to Italy it seems to see good opera.