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Article: BOOK REVIEW
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 14, 1994
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La Traviata opens with a drinking party, so it is appropriate
that this symposium on the sources and spin-offs of Verdi's opera
should have a gala feel about it. Edited by Nicholas John of ENO,
it is a collection of essays, interviews, excerpts, and
observations around the theme of the Lady with the Camellias, which
gives the impression of a gigantic opera programme. It has a
similar butterfly manner of darting from topic to topic, leaving
readers to believe they are making their own minds up, while
steering them towards one particular reading of the novel, the
play, the opera - even the various movie versions.
Alphonsine Plessis, the original lady of the camellias, changed
her name to ...