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the doomed coughing courtesan who out-sings her own death scene every single night.
opera originVerdi's La Traviata heroine, modeled on a real Parisian courtesan
real museMarie Duplessis, dead from tuberculosis at twenty-three
name meaninglittle violet, Italian diminutive of the flower
flower colorstrue violets bloom white, yellow, and blue too
first flopthe 1853 premiere bombed spectacularly before becoming a classic