Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata HISTORY PREMIERE March 6, 1853, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, with the following cast: Violetta Valéry, Fanny Salvini-Donatelli; Alfredo Germont, Lodovico Graziani; Giorgio Germont, Felice Varesi; Flora, Speranza Giuseppini; Gastone, Angelo Zuliani; Annina, Carlotta Berini; Baron Douphol, Francesco Dragone; Doctor Grenvil, Andrea Bellini FIRST NORTH AMERICAN PERFORMANCE December 3, 1856, at the New York Academy of Music in New York LAST PERFORMED BY WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA September–October 2008, conducted by Dan Ettinger and directed by Marta Domingo, with the following cast: Violetta Valéry, Elizabeth Futral; Alfredo Germont, Arturo Chacón Cruz; Giorgio Germont, Lado Ataneli; Flora, Margaret Thompson; Gastone, Yingxi Zhang; Annina, Micaëla Oeste; Baron Douphol, Nathan Herfindahl; Doctor Grenvil, Oleksandr Pushniak GIUSEPPE VERDI’S OPERAS Un Giorno di Regno (Il Finto Stanislao) , 1840; Teatro alla Scala, Milan Nabucco , 1842; Teatro alla Scala, Milan I due Foscari , 1844; Teatro Argentina, Rome Macbeth , 1847; Teatro Pergola, Florence Second version premiered in 1865 at Théâtre Lyrique, Paris I Masnadieri , 1847; Her Majesty’s Theatre, London Luisa Miller , 1849; Teatro San Carlo, Naples Stiffelio , 1850; Teatro Grande, Trieste Rigoletto , 1851; Gran Teatro la Fenice, Venice Il Trovatore , 1853; Teatro Apollo, Rome La Traviata , 1853; La Fenice, Venice Les Vêpres Siciliennes , 1855; Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris Simon Boccanegra , 1857; La Fenice, Venice Second version premiered in 1881 at La Scala, Milan Un Ballo in Maschera , 1859; Teatro Apollo, Rome La Forza del Destino , 1862; Imperial Theatre, St. Petersburg Second version premiered in 1869 at La Scala, Milan Don Carlos , 1867; Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris Aida , 1871; Opera Theatre, Cairo Otello , 1887; La Scala, Milan Falstaff , 1893; La Scala, Milan Washington National Opera www.dc-opera.org 202.295.2400 · 800.US.OPERA .