Event info

The Icelandic opera will stage the opera La Traviata by Verdi in Harpa´s main hall Eldborg on November 6th and 7th at 8 pm and in Hof in Akureyri November 13th at 8 pm. This famous opera about love of life, freedom, and forbidden love is in three acts and was premiered in Venice in 1853. It is set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on La Dame aux Camélias a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The opera was originally titled Violetta after the main character and is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful operas of the opera repertoire. Attraction between a Parisian courtesan and a young man from a provincial family leads to a forbidden romance that turns into a scandalous affair and ends up as a heartbreaking tragedy.

Conductor Anna Maria Helsing,

Stage director Oriol Tomas, 

Set designer Simon Guilbault

Lighting designer; Erwann Bernard

Costume designer Sébastien Dionne 

Video designer Félix Fradet-Faquy.

Violetta Valéry
Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir

Alfredo Germont
Rocco Rupolo

Giorgio Germont  
Hrólfur Sæmundsson

Flora Bervoix
Sigríður Ósk Kristjánsdóttir

Annina
Hrafnhildur Árnadóttir

Gastone
Snorri Wium

Baron Douphol
Oddur Arnþór Jónsson

Marchese d´Obigny
Aðalsteinn Már Ólafsson

Doctor Grenvil
Valdimar Hilmarsson

The choir of the Icelandic Opera and dancers will also perform in the production. Choir conductor is Magnús Ragnarsson

Historic collaboration; This will be the first time that the Icelandic opera collaborates with Menningarfélag Akureyrar in this production of La traviata that will be performed in both main Concert Halls in Iceland; Harpa in Reykjavík and Hof in Akureyri. SinfoniaNord will perform in all the shows under the baton of Anna -Maria Helsing who recently appeared at the BBC Proms Festival in Royal Albert Hall and has worked with SinfoniaNord in various projects.

Tickets for sale at www.opera.is and www.harpa.is  and in Akureyri www.mak.is