The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis

by René Weis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198708548
• ISBN13: 9780198708544
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"