La Traviata :Verdi

 Understanding social and cultural settings of the times. Life of

Courtesans (Violetta), Taboos and stereotypes associated with them:
1. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/612/
2. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-
s01/courtesans/defining-the-courtesan.htm
3. https://oopperabaletti.fi/en/offstage/courtesan-marie-is-given-
eternal-life-as-violetta/
4. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/04/elite-prostitutes-in-
18th-century-paris-and-the-detectives-who-watched-their-every-
move.html

 Genral musical & theatrical Synopsis, history, background, premiere

and Verdi’s views:
1. https://www.britannica.com/topic/La-traviata
2. https://hekint.org/2017/01/30/breath-of-life-youll-be-
to-me-the-portrayal-of-tuberculosis-in-the-opera-la-
traviata/
3. https://daily.jstor.org/why-verdi-wrote-an-opera-about-
sex-work/
4. https://brainly.ph/question/523952
5. https://issuu.com/operaphila/docs/traviata-
student_guide-no_front_cov
6. https://issuu.com/operaphila/docs/traviata-
student_guide-no_front_cov
7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d41d0q.14
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