BP Big Screens 2014

La traviata opens the BP Big Screen season on 20 May and is followed by La bohème on 15 July and Rigoletto on 17 September. All three productions are broadcast live from the iconic Covent Garden stage and free to 18 towns and cities across the UK.

The BP Big Screens are the perfect way to share world-class opera with family and friends for free. The three productions feature exclusive backstage films, competitions and live interaction, and bring some of the Royal Opera House’s finest performances live to the great outdoors across the UK.

THE ROYAL OPERA | GIUSEPPE VERDI
LA TRAVIATA | TUESDAY 20 MAY AT 7PM
Based on Alexandre Dumas fils’s successful play and novel La Dame aux camélias, this opera is one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most moving and memorable masterpieces, and has become one of the most popular operas in the repertory. Violetta, a Parisian courtesan and one of Verdi’s most complex characters, renounces her indulgent lifestyle for love of Alfredo – only to find that his father wishes her to make a much greater sacrifice.

Richard Eyre’s acclaimed production stars American soprano Ailyn Pérez in the role of Violetta singing opposite her real life husband American tenor Stephen Costello as Alfredo. One of today’s greatest baritones Simon Keenlyside sings the role of Giorgio Germont, under the baton of acclaimed Israeli conductor Dan Ettinger.