We, Jeroen Weiering and I, have made many productions in Ukraine in recent years and built a tradition of international exchange with performances that subsequently toured successfully through Western Europe.
Then in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.
We saw how “our” theaters were bombed.
The State Theater and the Philharmonic, which had only recently reopened after years of renovation: destroyed.
Singers and actors were literally forced to go underground. Not long ago, a video of an opera performance in the Derzprom metro station in Kharkiv reached us via Social Media.
The beautiful soprano Julia Antonova (the Leïla in “our” Pearl Fishers) was singing on a platform packed with an audience, while a metro passed by.
It showed the binding and healing power of music. That was also one of the inspirations for this production of La Traviata.
Many of the singers we worked with now belong to the Ukrainian diaspora.
We are now bringing together a number of these colleagues from all over the world to continue the tradition. Together with them we are making the next production. Smaller than before but packed with expressiveness. As if it were being played in an abandoned metro station. That is the production you are going to see today.
This Traviata does not focus on appearances, but zooms in on that intimate plot that Verdi creates so masterfully.
The heartbreaking struggle about love, safety and wanting to come home.
We are trying to capture this struggle in its purest form. For you and with singers who yearn for exactly the same thing.
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Musical Director	Jeroen Weiering
Set and Regie	Marc Krone
Costumes	Margrethe Beelen
Violetta	Marianna Tsvienska /Natalia Cioban
Alfredo	Maxime Vorocheck
Germond	Olekander Forkushak
Flora	Iryna Krasenko
Anina	Marianna Tsvienska /Natalia Cioban
Gastone	Ruslan Zinevych
Marchese	Filips Kraukis
Dottore	Fabian Homberg
Duphol	Daniël Attema

2024	National tour the Nederlands