Traviata
At this year’s In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the idea of putting on La Traviata becomes the show itself. Before the opera properly begins, three performers walk onstage carrying suitcases and questioning whether they are actually capable of taking on something as huge and iconic as Verdi’s masterpiece. What follows in *Traviata: A Free Prose Opera* is a playful mix of spoken theatre, opera, physical comedy, and meta-theatrical chaos that often works best when it fully embraces the fun o