Overview

• The inaugural free performance of Verdi’s La Traviata filled every seat in both the platea and graderío of the open-air Castrelos auditorium.
• Artistic director Marco Moncloa guided the production, incorporating unexpected audience participation moments such as a karaoke interlude.
• Based on Alexandre Dumas’s La dame aux camélias with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, the three-act opera delves into love, sacrifice, social hypocrisy and redemption.
• This outdoor series follows last summer’s successful Rigoletto and forms part of the Concello de Vigo’s Vigo en festas cultural programming.
• Preparations are already underway for the next free performance, Puccini’s Turandot, set for August 9 at the same venue.