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
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