La Traviata-1853 opera

La Traviata-1853

La Traviata is an Italian Opera that tells of a complicated love story between a man named Alfredo and a woman named Violetta.  The scene opens in Paris at a party that Violetta is hosting.  Alfredo is in attendance, and tells Violetta that has he has loved her ever since the first time he had laid eyes on her.  During this party, she begins to feel very ill, and asks all of the guests to leave.  Alfredo is the only one who stays because he is z about her state.  This shows the affection he has for her.  He also encourages her to take care of herself.  When he confesses his love to her, she says that she cannot accept love.  She does leave him with a kiss, however.  When she is alone, she contemplates on what he said.  She wonders if she's in love with him.  In the second act, she and Alfredo live together in the country, which he realizes was made possible by her selling her house.  Alfredo leaves to Paris to get more money soon after he finds this out.  While he is away, Alfredo's father comes to speak to Violetta and tries to convince her to end she and Alfredo's relationship.  Alfredo's father believes that Violetta is using Alfredo for his money, and does not actually love him, so he tells her she must end it. She wrote a letter to Alfredo saying that they could not be together anymore.  When Alfredo reads the letter and realizes that his father had set it up, he becomes furious.  In the third act, Violetta returned back to the city and tried to go back to her life.  Violetta goes to a ball and ends up with another man, Baron. The baron and Alfredo battle each other and Alfredo wins, and takes Violetta back.  Alfredo is angry.  After all of this, the father has realized that what he tried to do was wrong.  He hopes to find peace again with Violetta and Alfredo.  The father blames his acts on what God had told him to do.  However, Alfredo is too fed up with his father to take up his help; he wants to handle his own manners.  In the final act, Alfredo is forced to flee the country after he wounds the baron.   Violetta is at home in her death bed. She tells her nurse that she is physically sick but her soul is at peace.  The doctor tell her maid that she only has a few hours to live.  She is very sad, and misses Alfredo dearly.  Shortly after, he returns and says he cannot live the rest of his life without her.  They kiss, and he begins going on about how much he loves and adores her.  They agree to spend their lives together.  She suddenly feels alive and as if she is no longer sick.  Alfredo is hesitant on believing this.  She tells the maid that she no longer wants to die, and wants to live again.  Alfredo convinces her she won't die, and that they will go on to live their happiest possible lives together.  It seems as if all is going well, but the end of this opera is tragic.  The story ends by Violetta dying, even though it seems as if she was cured; she was not.  There was nothing that could be done to fix her physical health.