La Traviata en el cine de Zeffirelli. Una historia sobre la tuberculosis y otros malestares

Abstract

Adapted from the novel  The Lady of the Camellias of Alejandro Dumas (son), The Traviata is a landmark in the history of the opera in which the movie of Zeffirelli almost arrives at perfeccion. By uniting together, in a magical way, the deep contradictions of society and the implications of an illness that has crossed it completely, this great work of Romanticism arrives in our time with a power of flawless seduction.  There exists combined commentaries about   the artistic merits of the opera and the film production, the work poses a phisiopathogenic hypothesis about the mechanisms that would have contributed to a fatal course of the protagonist’s tuberculosis.  The special emphasis that is placed on the relation between the psychological processes of neuroendocrines and the immune system can offer us an answer as to why there is an increased risk or vulnerability to illness during emotionally difficult situations.