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The Real Traviata - The Song of Marie Duplessis (Paperback)
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The Real Traviata - The Song of Marie Duplessis (Paperback)
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Loot Price R493
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The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young
woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all
time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most
scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century,
La Dame aux Camelias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the
centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an
abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly
short space of time to the apex of fashionable life in nineteenth
century Paris, where she was considered the queen of the Parisian
courtesans. Her life was painfully short, but by sheer willpower,
intelligence, talent, and stunning looks she attained such
prominence in the French capital that ministers of the government
and even members of the French royal family fell under her spell.
In the 1840s, she commanded the kind of 'paparazzi' attention that
today we associate only with major royalty or the biggest Hollywood
stars. Aside from the younger Dumas, her conquests included a host
of writers and artists, including the greatest pianist of the
century, Franz Liszt, with whom she once hoped to elope. When she
died Theophile Gautier, one of the most important Parisian writers
of the day, penned an obituary fit for a princess. Indeed, he
boldly claimed that she had been a princess, notwithstanding her
peasant origin and her distinctly demi-monde existence. And
although now largely forgotten, in the years immediately after her
death, Marie's legend if anything grew in stature, with her
immortalization in Verdi's La traviata, an opera in which the great
Romantic composer tried to capture her essence in some of the most
heart-wrenching and lyrical music ever composed.
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