About This Song
About "La traviata / Act I : Verdi: La traviata / Act I: Prelude" by Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
The prelude to La traviata opens like a velvet curtain on a dying garden: strings sigh, woodwinds weep. No voice yet, but the orchestra already tells the story—pleasure and ruin waltzing in the same breath, a champagne glass trembling before it shatters.