Hershey Felder Presents – The Verdi Traviata – The Story Behind the Story (Live Stream)

1853, Venice, Teatro La Fenice, La Traviata‘s opening night. Would a story about a courtesan dying of consumption sung by a soprano too “ample” to be consumed by anything, and a cast of characters that seemed to have wandered into the theatre off the street, survive the most vicious public shaming that an opera had ever seen? Even Verdi himself wasn’t sure.