Charles Albert Fechter was an Anglo-French actor.
Portrait of Charles Albert Fechter, 1861-62
Charles Fechter as Hamlet, 1872.
No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Left to right: Benjamin Webster, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Henry G. Neville, Charles Fechter, Carlotta Leclercq, John Billington, and George G. Belmore.
The Lady of the Camellias
The Lady of the Camellias, sometimes called in English Camille, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. First published in 1848 and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage, the play premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France, on February 2, 1852. It was an instant success. Shortly thereafter, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi set about putting the story to music in the 1853 opera La traviata, with female protagonist Marguerite Gautier renamed Violetta Valéry.
Alphonse Mucha's poster for a performance of the theatrical version, with Sarah Bernhardt (1896)
Marie Duplessis painted by Édouard Viénot
Illustration by Albert Lynch
Eugénie Doche created the role of Marguerite Gautier in 1852