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Monday Night at the Movies "La Traviata"

Hailed as the best opera film ever made, Franco Zefferelli's La Traviata (1983) is a superb blend of music, story, and film-making.  Made as a film of Verdi's story rather than a traditional film of an opera on stage, Zeferrelli shatters the bounds of typical opera production by using real-life sites in and around Paris.  The sets are lush, the cinematography brilliant and the acting intense.  The film stars Placido Domingo as Alfredo, Teresa Stratas as Violetta and Cornell MacNeil as Alfredo's father.  James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

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