Opera on the Big Screen: La Traviata

A celebrated production of Verdi’s La Traviata in cinema surround, with an introduction by a dramaturg and an interval bar. Your ticket includes a glass of sparkling wine.

Kino Lumen is a 1930s single-screen cinema on Porzellangasse with its original curved balcony, deep red seats and a velvet curtain that still opens by motor. At 7 pm a dramaturg takes the stage for fifteen minutes on Violetta, Paris and why the first act is a party that is already ending. Then the lights go down and the opera fills the room, close enough to see the singers breathe and loud enough to feel the brindisi.

Sung in Italian with English and German subtitles. One interval, when the foyer bar pours the sparkling wine and sells pretzels. Lift to the balcony. Running time three and a half hours including the talk.