La Traviata, the new opera by Opéra de Bordeaux

opéra / bordeaux / spectacle / incontournable

26 January - 3 February 2026

Discover the Bordeaux National Opera's event show for the 2025-2026 season.

The opera event in Bordeaux

• Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux camélias inspired Giuseppe Verdi to create his romantic drama in 1853. At the time, audiences were baffled by the strengths of this masterpiece today: an intimate drama, the realism of the plot, the impossible freedom of love for women of the Second Empire... Violetta, the famous Lady of the Camellias, is a courtesan condemned by illness and bourgeois society, whose pleasures she nevertheless serves. Her path to redemption is almost impossible: only her love for a son from a good family can save her and give her a little happiness. The magnificent production by the late Pierre Rambert places us in the splendor of Second Empire architecture, set against more contemporary furnishings. After triumphing in La Bohème (2023) and Rigoletto (2024) at the Opéra National de Paris, Slovenia's Slávka Zamečníková is one of the most promising artists of her generation.

Around the show

• Thursday, January 22 5pm: Christian Malapert's lecture on La Traviata, Grand-Théâtre
• Monday, January 26 6:30pm: Meet Stephen Taylor, Grand-Théâtre - Salon Boireau
• Wednesday, January 28 6pm: Blanche Cerquiglini's lecture on Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux camélias, Foyer rouge (Grand-Théâtre), in partnership with Mollat bookshop