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LA TRAVIATA - The Musical

Forse non tutti sanno che La Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi è in realtà la trasposizione teatrale di un romanzo, La Signora delle Camelie, scritto da Alexandre Dumas figlio nel 1848. E ancora, pochi sanno che entrambe le opere sono ispirate alla vita di una donna realmente vissuta, Alphonsine Rose Plessis, morta di tisi a soli ventitré anni dopo essere stata l’amante proprio di Alexandre Dumas figlio.

Forse non tutti sanno che La Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi è in realtà
la trasposizione teatrale di un romanzo, La Signora delle Camelie,
scritto da Alexandre Dumas figlio nel 1848. E ancora, pochi
sanno che entrambe le opere sono ispirate alla vita di una donna
realmente vissuta, Alphonsine Rose Plessis, morta di tisi a soli
ventitré anni dopo essere stata l’amante proprio di Alexandre Dumas
figlio.

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ONE YEAR AFTER

ALPHONSINE’S DEATH,

ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS

WRITES

LA DAME AUX CAMÉLIAS

Paris, 1848

MUCH MORE

THAN A SIMPLE

CAMELLIA

In September 1844, aged 20, Alexandre Dumas, son of the more famous

Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, met Marie Duplessis

for the first time at the Théâtre des Variétés, thus beginning an almost yearlong

love affair.

He then ended the relationship, which had become too costly, due to jealousy

as well as financial reasons.

After Marie’s death, Alexandre realised that this could form the basis for a

semi-autobiographical novel, based on his experience of love and suffering,

and enriched with romantic details – this was a chance for him to make his

own name, beyond the shadow of his father’s fame.

It took him just a month to write La Dame aux Camélias, renaming the protagonists

of the story Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval.

Despite the reticence of the conservative bourgeois about the contemporary

nature of the story, for Alexandre it opened the doors to success.

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