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‘La Traviata’: Hope in a tragic opera

When Verdi composed La Traviata (The Fallen One), he was moving away from traditional subjects of opera like stories from The Bible or historical dramas. In his ground-breaking work that met with a lot of resistance from the initial audiences, he tackled prostitution, disease and human passion.

‘La Traviata’: Hope in a tragic opera