back for 2023

Officially the most-performed opera worldwide, La Traviata is Verdi's twisting love story that explores class, reputation, and devotion, with heartbreaking consequences. Join North Carolina Opera for a dazzling production of this unmissable opera, with Vanessa Vasquez and Jonathan Johnson as the doomed lovers Violetta and Alfredo.

What is the story?

Adapted from the novel The Lady of The Camellias by Alexander Dumas, La Traviata is the tale of Paris' most winning courtesan Violetta Valery, and the nobleman Alfredo who finds himself lost to her charms and manages to persuade her to move to the country with him. But abandoning her life of kept luxury proves easier said than done and soon the besotted couple find the outside world encroaching on their love nest and their reputation has spread much further than they hoped...

It's about risking everything for love, even your life.