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* AmericansHateTingle: ''La Traviata'''s British premiere took place in 1856 in London, where the prudish Victorian Brits considered the opera morally objectionable for suggesting that SocietyIsToBlame for the plight of the main character, a consumptive courtesan. Even Queen Victoria refrained from visited the theatre whenever it was staging ''La Traviata''.
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* AmericansHateTingle: ''La Traviata'''s British premiere took place in 1856 in London, where the prudish Victorian Brits considered the opera morally objectionable for suggesting that SocietyIsToBlame for the plight of the main character, a consumptive courtesan. Even Queen Victoria refrained from visited visiting the theatre whenever it was staging ''La Traviata''.
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*AmericansHateTingle: ''La Traviata'''s British premiere took place in 1856 in London, where the prudish Victorian Brits considered the opera morally objectionable for suggesting that SocietyIsToBlame for the plight of the main character, a consumptive courtesan. Even Queen Victoria refrained from visited the theatre whenever it was staging ''La Traviata''.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Père Germont a well-meaning man who is forced to uphold bourgeoisie values when asking Violetta to leave Alfredo? Or is he a slut-shaming, chauvinistic patriarch who delights in Violetta's suffering? Some productions, like Willy Decker's production, tend to lean to the latter interpretation.
** It's even possible to play him as a hypocrite who lusts after Violetta himself.
** It's even possible to play him as a hypocrite who lusts after Violetta himself.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Père Germont a well-meaning man who is forced to uphold bourgeoisie values when asking Violetta to leave Alfredo? Or is he a slut-shaming, chauvinistic patriarch who delights in Violetta's suffering? Some productions, like Willy Decker's production, tend to lean to the latter interpretation.
**interpretation. It's even possible to play him as a hypocrite who lusts after Violetta himself.
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* TearJerker: Big time!
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* TearJerker: Big time!time! The ending in particular involves Violetta dying while [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy letting Alfredo go]].
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** It's even possible to play him as a hypocrite who lusts after Violetta himself.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Père Germont a well-meaning man who is forced to uphold bourgeoisie values when asking Violetta to leave Alfredo? Or is he a slut-shaming, chauvinistic patriarch who delights in Violetta's suffering? Some productions, like Willy Decker's production, tend to lean to the latter interpretation.
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* FairForItsDay: Yes, modern feminists might object to the fact that Violetta has to sacrifice everything for Alfredo, and that she has to die in the end. Still, the opera portrays her as an unquestionably noble and selfless heroine, and exposes the hypocrisy of the then-accepted social more that women who fell were DefiledForever.
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* FairForItsDay: Yes, modern feminists might object to the fact that Violetta has to sacrifice everything for Alfredo, and that she has to die in the end. Still, the opera portrays her as an unquestionably noble and selfless heroine, and exposes the hypocrisy of the then-accepted social more that women who fell were DefiledForever.DefiledForever.
*TearJerker: Big time!
*TearJerker: Big time!
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*FairForItsDay: Yes, modern feminists might object to the fact that Violetta has to sacrifice everything for Alfredo, and that she has to die in the end. Still, the opera portrays her as an unquestionably noble and selfless heroine, and exposes the hypocrisy of the then-accepted social more that women who fell were DefiledForever.
