Composer Giuseppe Verdi Librettist Francesco Maria Piave Based On the play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils Company San Francisco Opera Association Location San Francisco, CA Venue War Memorial Opera House Season 1939 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Gaetano Merola Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Master William Tyroler Cast Violetta Valéry, a Lady of the demi-monde Jarmila Novotná Alfredo Germont, lover of Violetta Nino Martini Giorgio Germont, his father Lawrence Tibbett Gastone, Viscount of Letorières Ludovico Oliviero Baron Douphol, a rival of Alfredo George Cehanovsky Flora, friend of Violetta Thelma Votipka Annina, maid to Violetta Margaret Ritter Doctor Grenvil Louis D'Angelo Marquis d'Obigny Stanley Noonan Majordomo Evaristo Alibertini Principal Dancers, Act III Merle Williams Willam Christensen Show Dates Mon, Oct 30 1939, 8:15pm Time and Place About 1700; Paris and Environs Scenes Act I -- Drawing room in the House of Violetta Act II -- A villa near Paris Act III -- Salon in Flora's Palace Act IV -- Violetta's Apartment Media Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Nino Martini (Alfredo), Jarmila Novatna (Violetta) Credit Morton Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Nino Martini (Alfredo), Jarmila Novatna (Violetta) Credit Morton Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Jarmilla Novatna (Violetta), Ludovico Oliviero (Gastone), Stanley Noonan (d'Obigny), Thelma Votipka (Flora), Louis d'angelo (Grenvil) Credit Morton Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Jarmila Novatna (Violetta), Nino Martini (Alfredo) Credit Morton Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Thelma Votipka (Flora), Louis d'Angelo (Grenvil), Ludovico Oliviero (Gastone), Lawrence Tibbett (Pere Germont) Credit Morton Document SFO_PUB_01_SFO_1939_11_compressed.pdf (7.61 MB) Notes To access the full production program, click the PDF link above. --------------------- Dancers San Francisco Opera Corps de Ballet
Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Nino Martini (Alfredo), Jarmila Novatna (Violetta) Credit Morton
Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Nino Martini (Alfredo), Jarmila Novatna (Violetta) Credit Morton
Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Jarmilla Novatna (Violetta), Ludovico Oliviero (Gastone), Stanley Noonan (d'Obigny), Thelma Votipka (Flora), Louis d'angelo (Grenvil) Credit Morton
Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Jarmila Novatna (Violetta), Nino Martini (Alfredo) Credit Morton
Image La Traviata, Giuseppe Verdi. San Francisco Opera, 1939. Photographer: Lawrence B. Morton/San Francisco Opera. Thelma Votipka (Flora), Louis d'Angelo (Grenvil), Ludovico Oliviero (Gastone), Lawrence Tibbett (Pere Germont) Credit Morton