![]() The title character is Marguerite Gautier, who is based on Marie Duplessis, the real-life lover of the author. In some of the English-speaking world, La Dame aux Camélias became known as Camille, and sixteen versions have been performed at Broadway theatres alone. 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. 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. The Lady of the Camellias, sometimes called in English Camille) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alphonse Mucha's poster for a performance of the theatrical version, with Sarah Bernhardt (1896) ![]()
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