La traviata
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La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias, a play by Alexandre Dumas fils, which he adapted from
Verdi around 1850
Francesco Maria Piave, librettist of the opera
Poster for the world premiere
Felice Varesi, the first Germont père (Litho: Josef Kriehuber)
Alexandre Dumas fils
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Alexandre Dumas fils was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias, published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata, as w
La traviata
…is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas fils, which he adapted from his own 1848 novel. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. It was first performed on 6 March 1853…
Alexandre Dumas fils
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Autographe
Alexandre Dumas fils, in his youth
Bust of Alexander Dumas fils, by the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Orsay Museum