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The Lady of the Camellias

play by Dumas

Also known as: “La Dame aux camélias”

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basis for “La traviata”

In La traviata
Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame aux camélias), the opera marked a large step forward for Verdi in his quest to express dramatic ideas in music. La traviata means “the fallen woman” or “the one who goes astray” and refers to the main character, Violetta Valéry, a courtesan. The…
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character of Camille

In Camille
…fictional character, the protagonist of La Dame aux camélias (1848; staged 1852) by Alexandre Dumas fils.
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place in French literature

In French literature: Drama
…La Dame aux camélias (1848; The Lady with the Camellias), the novel and play on which the libretto of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata was based, but the moralizing Les Idées de Mme Aubray (1867), with its plea for the social redemption of repentant fallen women, is more typical of his…
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