he world's most performed opera returns to the stage of the Croatian National Theatre in Split. This musical drama about a Parisian courtesan, a "fallen woman" who sacrifices everything for love, is the culmination of Verdi's genius. From the intoxicating joy of the drinking song (Brindisi) to the subdued, touching third act where hope and despair meet, La traviata is a deeply emotional, bel canto masterpiece by the greatest opera master.

Based on Alexandre Dumas's play, The Lady of the Camellias, Verdi and his librettist Francesco Maria Piave created a timeless, moving musical and dramatic story of sacrifice and redemption, the hypocrisy of conventional bourgeois morality, but above all, of love.

The plot centers on the Parisian courtesan Violetta Valéry and her love for Alfredo Germont. At the request of his father, she renounces her love to preserve the Germont family's reputation. La traviata, along with Rigoletto and Il trovatore, is generally considered the "most mature harvest of Italian romantic melodrama," with this opera being the most elegant and refined of the three.