Kā top "KAMĒLIJU DĀMA" LNO / Tīta Herma balets/ "The Lady of the Camellias" ballet by Tiit Härm

"The Lady of the Camellias" / "Kamēliju dāma"
Ballet in two acts by Tiit Härm
Music by Franz List
Libretto by Eldor Renter, edited by Tiit Härm, after Alexandre Dumas, fils, novel of the same name
Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils and set to the romantic music of Franz Liszt, The Lady of the Camellias tells the story of the Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gautier and her lover Armand Duval, the son of a wealthy family. Armand's father demands Marguerite leave his son, and she gives in. When the lovers meet again coincidentally some time later, she is already deathly ill with tuberculosis...

Ballet The Lady of the Camellias is created by choreographer Tiit Harm. World premiere of the ballet took place in Estonian National opera, 2006.
Premiere at the Latvian National Opera on March 25, 2011
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