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Which Alexandre Dumas fils play inspired Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata?
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Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi was known for operas such as Rigoletto (1851).
Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata was inspired by the 1852 play La Dame aux camélias (often known in English as Camille), written by Alexandre Dumas fils.412
Dumas fils had previously adapted the story from his own 1848 novel of the same name, which was based on the life of a real-life Parisian courtesan named Marie Duplessis. Verdi attended a performance of the play in Paris in 1852 and subsequently chose to adapt the narrative for the operatic stage, premiering his work in 1853.314