Marietta Piccolomini inexperience, critics praised her dramatic ability. Following her season in England, Picolomini sang in Dublin with great success. Piccolomini's appearance in Paris in "Traviata" on December 6, 1856, was the first time the opera had been heard in France. Verdi tried to stop the opera from being performed at Théâtre des Italiens owing to lack of copyright for his operas in France at the time, also supporting the claims of the French holder of the rights on Alexandre Dumas's "La Dame aux camélias" (whence the opera is drawn), but without success. Again, while critics remarked on the limitations of her
Alexandre aux Indes Alexandre aux Indes Alexandre aux Indes ("Alexander in India") is an opera by the French composer Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 26 August 1783. It takes the form of a "tragédie lyrique" in three acts. The libretto, by Étienne Morel de Chédeville, concerns Alexander the Great and the Indian king Porus. The plot has similarities with Racine's tragedy "Alexandre le Grand" (1665) and Metastasio's libretto "Alessandro nell'Indie". King Porus is due to marry Axiane when he hears news that Alexander the Great is threatening his kingdom. Hephaestion arrives and