Orphée et Eurydice: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
La Traviata: week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Tea: A Mirror of Soul: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1
Madama Butterfly: week 4 - week 3 - week 2 - week 1

La traviata - Week One

The original OCP set for La traviata is given a slight update, using costumes of the 1920’s era.  Here are a few of Costume Designer Richard St. Clair’s original sketches of these beautiful period dresses.

OCP Artistic Director Robert Driver leads Verdi’s romantic masterpiece La traviata, the story of the Parisian courtesan who has become one of opera’s most beloved heroines.

Soprano Leah Partridge makes her Opera Company debut as the beautiful Violetta.

Baritone Mark Stone returns to the Academy of Music stage as Alfredo’s father, Giorgio Germont.  Audiences will remember Stone for his delightful performance as the title character in last season’s Gianni Schicchi.

Soprano Leah Partridge and tenor Charles Castronovo make their Opera Company debuts as Violetta and Alfredo, Verdi’s doomed lovers.

Maestro Corrado Rovaris (left) and Director Robert Driver (right) look through their scores as they lead the singers through a music rehearsal.

Alfredo, tenor Charles Castronovo (left), is comforted by his father, baritone Mark Stone (right), who has convinced Violetta to leave his son for the good of their family.