La traviata Felice Varesi and the tenor Lodovico Graziani. The next day, Verdi wrote to his friend Emanuele Muzio in what has now become perhaps his most famous letter: ""La traviata" last night a failure. Was the fault mine or the singers'? Time will tell." Coincidentally, as Philips-Matz points out, an Italian translation of the play "La Dame aux camélias" was being presented just a short distance from La Fenice. While there were demands for productions from impresarios in various Italian cities, Verdi was loath to allow them unless he could be sure of the strength of the singers, and in spite
La Dame aux Camélias Young, Theda Bara, Yvonne Printemps, Alla Nazimova, Greta Garbo, Micheline Presle, Francesca Bertini, Isabelle Huppert, and others. There have been at least nine adaptations of "La Dame aux Camélias" entitled "Camille". In addition to the "Camille" films, the story has been the adapted into numerous other screen versions: Amongst many adaptations, spin-offs and parodies, was "Camille", "a travesty on "La Dame aux Camellias" by Charles Ludlam, staged first by his own Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1973, with Ludlam playing the lead in drag In 1999 Alexia Vassiliou collaborated with composer Aristides Mytaras for the contemporary dance performance, "La Dame aux