by Stephanie Kirchgaessner

The American film director Sofia Coppola is to make her opera debut this year with a production of La Traviata, at the Opera of Rome – a star-studded coup for the beleaguered venue, which has long been overshadowed by La Scala in Milan.

Coppola, the director of Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides, will team up with the fashion designer Valentino for the production of Verdi's masterpiece. He asked Coppola to join the project after he watched her 2006 film Marie Antoinette.

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Source: http://www.theguardian.com/