La traviata her music changes as she develops through the drama, from the hectic, almost hysterical coloratura of the first act, to the more dramatic passages of the second, and the spiritual quality of her music as she departs life in Act Three. Notes Cited sources Other sources La traviata La traviata (, "The Fallen Woman") is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on "La Dame aux Camélias" (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas "fils". The opera was originally titled "Violetta", after the main
La Dame aux Camélias Camélias" at the Amore Theatre in Athens. It is also the inspiration for the 2008 musical "Marguerite", which places the story in 1944 German-occupied France. In "My Antonia" by Willa Cather, the characters Jim Burden and Lena Lingard are much moved by a theatrical production of Camille, which they attend in Book 3, chapter 3. "Love Story", published by Eric Segal in 1970, has essentially the same plot updated to contemporary New York. The conflict here centres on the relative economic classes of the central characters. La Dame aux Camélias La Dame aux Camélias (literally The Lady with the Camellias,