TIRANA, Feb. 27 – Verdi’s La Traviata will be the new show at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet this weekend. The opera coming in a ballet will stage on March 1 and 2 at 19.00
after making its premiere last year as Albanian-Italian cooperation on the 200th birth anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi, Italy’s most famous composer.
In Albania, La Traviata has seen six productions with the absolute premiere in 1956.
The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet will offer a choreographic reinterpretation of Verdi’s most famous operas to honor twelve performers of Violetta during its sixty-year history as an Opera House.
The orchestra is conducted by maestro Eno Koco, while ballet dancers Enada e Gerd Vaso will be the show’s soloists and choreographers in a set design by Erald Bakalli and costumes by Ardi Asllani.
La Traviata back in a ballet
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