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La Dame aux camélias is back

The story of the Parisian courtesan’s ill-starred love conveyed by the romantic novel of Alexandre Dumas, fils, entered the history of music in the operatic treatment of Giuseppe Verdi. Apart from it, though, there exist a good many ballet versions of the famed literary work. The Prague State Opera currently presents a spectacular ballet production of La Dame aux camélias, choreographed by Libor Vaculík. A musical collage of various sequences from Verdi’s opera score, it was arranged by Sergey Onsoff. The production premiered in the autumn of 2003, since when it has been applauded by audiences on the company’s home turf as well as during its many tours in this country and abroad. Now La Dame aux camélias is being reintroduced to the PSO stage after a fairly long pause, for a single performance taking place on November 23, 2009. This will be followed by a series of four showings in the northern Italian cities of Trieste, Trento, and Modena, on a tour scheduled for late November and early December 2009.

La Dame aux camélias is back

La Dame aux camélias is back
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The Prague State Opera - Theatre History in Pictures and Dates - Book cover
The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates
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The Prague State Opera in cooperation with the Slovart publishing house publishes a representative book tracking the history of this significant cultural institution since its opening in 1888 till the end of the 2002/2003 season. The publication called The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates is focusing solely on the opera featured at the scene, even though the theatre under various names also served to presentation of drama plays, operettas and ballet. The Prague State opera plans to publish the volumes concentrating on those genres in the next years.

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