La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The opera was originally entitled Violetta, after the main character. The first performance of the opera was on March 6, 1853, at the La Fenice opera house in Venice. [Source]
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"Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (Cheryl Studer & Luciano Pavarotti)
"È strano!...Ah, fors'è lui...Sempre Libera" (Maria Callas)
"Di Provenza il mar" (Dmitri Hvorostovsky)
"Lunge da lei...O mio rimorso!" (Ismael Jordi)
"Teneste la promessa...Addio del passato" (Rosanna Carteri)
"Parigi o cara" (Plácido Domingo & Ileana Cotrubas)
"È strano!...Ah, fors'è lui...Sempre Libera" (Maria Callas)
"Di Provenza il mar" (Dmitri Hvorostovsky)
"Lunge da lei...O mio rimorso!" (Ismael Jordi)
"Teneste la promessa...Addio del passato" (Rosanna Carteri)
"Parigi o cara" (Plácido Domingo & Ileana Cotrubas)
