La Traviata

A Morning Conference at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol

Sunday 17th October 2010, 10.00 am – 12.45 pm

Registration from 9.30 am

Following on from last year’s highly successful conference on Rigoletto, the same team is returning by popular demand. 

Francis Grier is a psychoanalyst working in private practice and a well-known composer, whose large scale choral work The passion of Jesus of Nazareth was performed in King’s College Chapel in Cambridge in 2006. He will give a talk on themes of love, sex, hatred and death in Verdi’s opera La Traviata, and in the composer’s own life. 

Jonathan Lyness and Richard Studer have been musical and artistic directors of the enterprising and exquisitely musical Opera Project since 1993. This is their eighth annual production at the Tobacco Factory. They also perform regularly at St George’s, Bristol. They will discuss their views and interpretation of La Traviata with Francis Grier and respond to his talk. 

Kate Barrows, psychoanalyst and child psychotherapist, working in private practice and at the Bridge Foundation, will chair the event. 

The event is part of an ongoing annual collaboration between The Bridge Foundation and The Tobacco Factory, including a series of conferences on Andrew Hilton’s nationally admired productions of Shakespeare, and an acclaimed event on Jonathan Miller’s production of Hamlet. In 2006 Jonathan Lyness and Richard Studer joined in a fascinating discussion of their production of Don Giovanni, with papers by psychoanalyst Richard Rusbridger and academic David Punter.

Tickets are available for the performance of La Traviata on Saturday 16^th October (£33 unreserved seating), and then for the conference on Sunday 17th October (£22.50 or £12.50 for students / unwaged)

Early bird special: £20 if booked before 24th September.

Please click here for a booking form for conference and performance (to print and post with a cheque)

To book online for the conference only:

Click here for Online Booking - Via  Ticket Source - All Tickets purchased online through TicketSource are subject to a processing fee. This fee is applied per transaction (as opposed to per ticket) and is levied in accordance with the sliding scale outlined below:

Transaction Value     Fee Due

£9.00 - £50.00             10%
£50.01 - £100.00           7.5%
£100.01 - £250.00         6%

An e-ticket will be issued to you but we will also send you details through the post or by e-mail if you prefer.

If you would like to book your tickets for a performance of La Traviata separately then please see The Tobacco Factory website.