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Title: Favourite operas from Mozart to Mascagni : their plots, history and music
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert), 1861-1914
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: New York : Thomas Nelson
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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re fortunate. «LA TRAVIATA* The story of this long-lived favourite is founded onthe younger Dumas novel and play, La Dame auxCamdlias. As evolved in the text, it is easily told.It is a sort of drawing-room tragedy—^the somewhatsickly tale of love and death of Dumas MargueriteGauthier, here called Violetta. Act 1.—Violetta is a reigning belle, in fact, acourtesan, but purely devoted to an honest lover.The Act opens at a reception in her house in Paris,Alfred Germont, whom she has recently met, isregarded by her with greater favour than otheradmirers, and they pledge their troth after the sing-ing by Violetta of the famous scena, ** Ah I fors «^lui. Alfred makes himself conspicuous by trollingout a Bacchanalian song for the general amuse-ment. In the midst of this jollity Violetta givesunmistakable signs of a pulmonary complaint, andAlfred, left alone with her, expresses serious un-easiness on her account. When Alfred has gone, Violetta drops into dejected reflection on her sad 82
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*Do you all here know this woman «LA TRAVIATA condition, and presently resolves to drown her caresin dissipation. Here the Act ends. Act 2.—Three months have gone by. The sceneis now at a country house near Paris, where Alfredand Violetta are spending a quiet period of love.One day Alfred learns from a chance remark of themaid that Violetta has arranged to sell her horsesand carriages to provide for their needs. Stung bythe thought that he is living at the expense of hismistress, he rushes off to Paris to prevent the sale.While he is absent, his old father calls, and, byrepresenting to Violetta that his daughters matri-monial prospects are endangered by Violettas com-promising connection with Alfred, induces Violettato sacrifice her own feelings for the sake of Alfredswelfare. On Alfreds return, he receives a letter inwhich Violetta tells him she has left him for ever.The scene now shifts to the salon of anothercourtesan, Flora Bervoix. A masked ball is in pro-gress. Alfred is ther

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