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Giuseppe Verdi was well on the way towards renown and prosperity when he took up the story of Violetta, a famed courtesan whose intensely romantic and colourful but tragically brief life marked the emergence of realism into Italian opera.
Verdi and Alexandre Dumas fils intended this melodrama to have a contemporary setting, and David Livermore's stunning production maintains this wish by...
