‘The thing that I’m always fascinated by is looking at the politics of now through the prism of another era. And given how politics are going at the moment, I think looking backwards is actually incredibly useful,’ said Sarah Giles, the director of a new production of La Traviata opening in Brisbane this week.
Verdi’s 1853 opera about a consumptive courtesan (a high class sex worker) is consistently named as one of the ten most popular operas in the world, but what does it have to say about the contemporary world?
