Spring, 2011. Jean-François Sivadier stages La Traviata at Aix-en-Provence, Louis Langrée conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, Natalie Dessay is Violetta.
Over two months, from the rehearsal rooms to behind the scenes of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, a film crew closely followed the production's development from up close
How does one become La Traviata? How does the story appear to us on the theater stage?
How does emotion spring to life again from a conductor's baton, between the orchestra and the choir? How is the magic of opera renewed and reproduced?
How does one become a character?
Each and every one of us has had a date at some time or another with this woman, this work, this myth: TRAVIATA.