Premiere of La traviata

Verdi

MAR 6 1853 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman) premiered at Venice’s La Fenice, Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
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PIC Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, the first Violetta