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 Côte-aux-Fées La Côte-aux-Fées La Côte-aux-Fées is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. La Côte-aux-Fées is first mentioned in 1337 as "La Costa des Faies". La Côte-aux-Fées has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 41.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. Out of the