Verdi: La Traviata (highlights) Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Performer: Edita Gruberova, sop (Violetta Valery), Neil Shicoff, ten (Alfredo Germont); Giorgio Zancanaro, bar (Giorgio Germont), Alastair Miles, bass (Dottore Grenvil) Conductor: Carlo Rizzi Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers La traviata, The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Cam�lias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The opera was originally entitled Violetta, after the main character.