LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain: Dr Mitchell Morris - The Romantic Disease

The scene is set for a romantic tale, complete with candlelight, music and...coughing? Musicologist and author, Dr. Mitchell Morris, discusses the way composer Giuseppe Verdi and his audiences would have thought about tuberculosis and how those ideas manifest in La Traviata.

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