Camille
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La Dame aux Camélias (literally The Lady with the Camellias, commonly known in English as Camille) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage. La Dame aux Camélias premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about putting the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera La Traviata, with the female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta Valéry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Dame_aux_Cam%C3%A9lias
Although La Dame aux Camélias was actually named Violetta in La Traviata, she does wear white, this is Renée Fleming of whom conductor Sir Georg Solti said, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi." – youtu.be/V-yhYKlmkb0
And of course the divine Maria – youtu.be/I4cSVnqGmOc
