‘La Traviata, the woman gone astray’
OPERA was born in Italy at the end of the 16th century. Some say that opera is a stepchild of the arts—a sort of mongrel offspring to ballet, music, drama—and is not a pure art form. Opera is emotional, with jubilant chorus, wild wailings, dolorous themes, melodic preludes, symbolism of torments and delights, as it…