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rosepompadour · 1 year
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Whatever happens, I loved you well.
Alexander Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias (1848)
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la-cocotte-de-paris · 7 months
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Edwige Feuillère preparing backstage for a production of La Dame aux Camélias, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1953.
Photographed by Henry Clarke. Dress by Balmain.
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ttintricacies · 2 years
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When Anaïs Nin said “I have belonged to you in a way you haven’t to me” and when Byron said “although I am not beloved, still let me love” and when Mary Shelley said “although I may not be yours, I can never be another’s” and when Alexandre Dumas-Fils said “no matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”
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blackswaneuroparedux · 10 months
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On a toujours associé la campagne  à l'amour et l'on a bien fait : rien n'encadre la femme que l'on aime  comme le ciel bleu, les senteurs, les fleurs, les brises, la solitude  resplendissante des champs ou des bois.
- Alexandre Dumas Fils
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princesssarisa · 9 days
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I'm not sure if the 2002 Traviata from Bussetto is one of the definitive filmed productions of that opera or not. But one thing about it that stands out is that its Violetta (Stefania Bonfadelli) and Alfredo (Scott Piper) both look like their real-life counterparts, Marie Duplessis and a young Alexandre Dumas fils.
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That's not something you often see. Especially not in the case of Alfredo, because so few tenors who sing the role are mixed race, as Dumas fils was and as this tenor is.
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leer-reading-lire · 3 months
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || December || 27 || Favourite Quote
"Un jour, un jeune homme passe dans une rue, il y coudoie une femme, il la regarde, il se retourne, il passe. Cette femme, il ne la connaît pas, elle a des plaisirs, des chagrins, des amours où il n'a aucune part. Il n'existe pas pour elle, et peut-être, s'il lui parlait, se moquerait-elle de lui comme Marguerite avait fait de moi. Des semaines, des mois, des années s'écoulent, et tout à coup, quand ils ont suivi chacun leur destinée dans un ordre différent, la logique du hasard les ramène en face l'un de l'autre. Cette femme devient la maîtresse de cet homme et l'aime. Comment? Pourquoi? Leurs deux existences n'en font plus qu'une; à peine l'intimité existe-t-elle, qu'elle leur semble avoir existé toujours, et tout ce qui a précédé s'efface de la mémoire des deux amants. C'est curieux, avouons-le".
-La Dame aux camélias, Alexandre Dumas fils.
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105nt · 11 months
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New book.
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opera-ghosts · 2 years
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This Original Photo show the famous Soprano ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (1915-2006) in Traviata at Stadttheater Bern, she sang there in a Gala 1948. 
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“ You have to love anyone, anything, anyhow, as long as you love.”
- Alexandre Dumas Fils
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A casa nostra (2006) by Francesca Comencini
Book title: La vie à vingt ans (1856) by Alexandre Dumas Fils
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Books of 2022 - September
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Had a very slow reading month as I’ve started a completely new postgraduate course and shifted to full time education again. Needless to say, I’ve had a lot less time and it has been very draining. I’ve not necessarily read that much less by numbers, but what I did read was smaller – plus I didn’t love anything that I did read…
La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils – this was a disappointing read, not necessarily because it was a bad book, but I couldn’t connect to it. This is definitely a personal problem as I, occasionally, gain the morals of a middle class Victorian – it’s a personal problem, not much I can do about it – and that occurred here, so I struggled to truly connect with most of the book. This is very much on me and is not a comment on a book because, clearly, I’ve developed something against stories around prostitutes (I blame the Victorian novels). The book itself was fine, I’m not sure how I feel about the translation, but the characters were well realised for the length of the book and the plot was engaging enough by 19th century standards.
Honestly, if you’re interested then give it a go, it just clearly hit me at the wrong moment in time and I didn’t love my experience reading it. It’s definitely one of those I’m glad I read it moments, but I’m also glad it’s over…
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – this was my only reread of the month, which is a huge improvement from August, and I read it to continue my year of Tolkien. I think I’ve mentioned before that The Hobbit is not my favourite of Tolkien’s works, however, I enjoyed it well enough. I read most of The Hobbit through the new(ish) Andy Serkis audiobook, it was my first time listening to this version in full and I really enjoyed it. Serkis really elevates the book and animates it in a way I’ve never really experienced before, particularly as I’m more of a Silmarillion fan.
Warhost of Vastmark by Janny Wurts – I’m really struggling with the Wars of Light and Shadow series by Janny Wurts, it’s not so much that I don’t like it because there are elements that I absolutely love. However, there is something about it that I can’t quite pinpoint that keeps me from truly enjoying myself when I’m reading them. Some of this I think comes down to Wurts’ writing style, it’s overly dense so it can be difficult to fall into the book and forget the rest of the world for a bit. I’m always hyperaware that I’m reading rather than just experiencing a world or story. This just means a lot of the charm is now lost for me because I can’t just fall into the book without being aware of words on the page.
I’ve already said a lot about this series, so I don’t want to go into any specifics as the same problems keep rising up. I’m now wondering whether I should abandon the series or not. I’m going to give book four a shot as I do really love Lysaer’s plotline, but only enjoying about a third of the series is not fabulous when the books aren’t short and there’s currently 10 of them (soon to be 11!)
The Vampyre by John Polidori – I don’t have anything to say about this. Short stories don’t really do it for me, but I was stuck in the university library with nothing to do, so I thought I’d check it out.
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thebearfx · 2 years
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Alexandre Dumas Fils, The Lady of the Camellias
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la-cocotte-de-paris · 2 years
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LA STORIA VERA DELLA SIGNORA DALLE CAMELIE / LA DAME AUX CAMÉLIAS (1981), dir. Mauro Bolognini
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quotesfrommyreading · 2 years
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TB is often imagined as a disease of poverty and deprivation—of thin garments, thin bodies, unheated rooms, poor hygiene, inadequate food. The poverty may not be as literal as Mimi’s garret in La Bohème; the tubercular Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux camélias lives in luxury, but inside she is a waif. In contrast, cancer is a disease of middle-class life, a disease associated with affluence, with excess. Rich countries have the highest cancer rates and the rising incidence of the disease is seen as resulting, in part, from a diet rich in fat and proteins and from the toxic effluvia of the industrial economy that creates affluence. The treatment of TB is identified with the stimulation of appetite, cancer treatment with nausea and the loss of appetite. The undernourished nourishing themselves—alas, to no avail. The overnourished, unable to eat.
 —  Illness as Metaphor (Susan Sontag)
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On a toujours associé la campagne  à l'amour et l'on a bien fait : rien n'encadre la femme que l'on aime  comme le ciel bleu, les senteurs, les fleurs, les brises, la solitude  resplendissante des champs ou des bois.
- Alexandre Dumas Fils
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princesssarisa · 5 months
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My introduction to La Traviata was the 1982 Franco Zeffirelli film with Teresa Stratas and Plácido Domingo, followed soon afterward by the 2000 live filmed version "on location" in Paris, with Eteri Gvazava and José Cura. Not too after that, I saw the same opera onstage in LA.
Thanks to Plácido Domingo, José Cura, and Rolando Villazón, in that order, I can't help but imagine Alfredo Germont as looking slightly Spanish or Latin American. I know it's irrational, but I can't help it.
But then, Alexandre Dumas fils based the character on himself, and he was 1/8th Afro-Carribbean, so maybe it really is fitting that I don't picture him as looking like an average white Frenchman.
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