Professor Amanda Vickery on BBC2
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Professor Amanda Vickery presents La Traviata: Love, Death and Divas (link is external) on BBC 2 on Saturday 20th June. Prof Vickery and Radio 3 presenter Tom Service reveal the extraordinary story behind the opera's first night in London and its scandalous heroine, the courtesan Violetta Valéry, whose dramatic life and tragic death were based on real-life characters and events.