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The story is a timeless one of a father who disapproves of his son's choice of a woman for social reasons, breaks up the relationship and then regrets it when he discovers that she has great dignity and is dying. Her death brings father and son together and the story in its nineteenth century context has a poignant ending.
Co-Opera's production of La Traviata is set in the 1950's. It seemed that those years of scandals involving women of doubtful reputation, politicians and men of class were appropriate to the story of this opera. La Traviata is rich in tunes which are familiar and rousing.
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