By Giuseppe Verdi Created by Bath Opera Following spectacular success with Don Giovanni , Marriage of Figaro , Tosca and Barber of Seville , Bath Opera brings its award-winning small scale touring opera back to the Rondo Theatre with a highly innovative production of La Traviata , Verdis much-loved and probably saddest opera. Director John Clark says, I wanted to find a present-day setting that was plausible. The challenges were to find a setting where aristocratic family honour made it probable that a father would go to any lengths to stop his son marrying the woman he loves outside of the royal circle: and where the beloved was trapped in a hedonistic lifestyle from which the marriage was the only escape. We are therefore setting the opera in a grand casino in the middle east. The productions has an international cast headed by Cecilia Zhang from China, and John Haque from Sweden as the ill-starred lovers. See the full cast on www.bathopera.com. Sit back and enjoy the familiar music and bring plenty of tissues! Please note that there is a theatre restoration levy of 1.50 per ticket. This levy applies to all transactions, whether made in person at our Box Office, by post or by phone, for all payment types. The Rondo opens half an hour before the start of each show. Please ensure that you arrive before the advertised start time, as it may not be possible to admit late-comers.