YOU may not know opera, but you know La Traviata. It's the one with the consumptive courtesan who is persuaded by her lover's father to give him up for the sake of his family's honour. Guess what? She dies at the end.
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The prodigious son returns
World-famous director David McVicar has returned to his home town to put on the one opera he professes to hate. Alan Morrison meets a man of contradictions
