Your favorite opera drunk-texted you at 3 AM and somehow made it work.
For his opera Garnier stage-directing debut, Simon Stone creates a sensational La Traviata, 2.0! Pretty Yende and Benjamin Bernheim triumph as Violetta and Alfredo in a production that remixes the beloved operatic masterpiece’s familiar love story for the digital age, adding social media notifications, all-nighters, texts, and parties to produce an interpretation starkly appropriate for our modern era. At the podium, Michele Mariotti conducts the Paris National Opera Orchestra.
Production
Social media screens as Greek chorus—brutally clever.
Acting
Yende's Violetta: devastating vocals, devastating vulnerability.
Direction
Stone's modern staging actually earns its gimmicks.
Director
Simon Stone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stone's production sparked debates about 'updating' canonical opera—some called it genius, others desecration. The Paris Opera audience reportedly booed AND cheered on opening night.
Pretty Yende made history as one of the first Black sopranos to headline Traviata at Garnier; her Instagram following tripled after this production's social media buzz.
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