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La Dame aux Camélias, written by Alexandre Dumas fils, was first published in 1848 and was apparently based on the authors own liaison with the famous courtesan Marie Duplessis. The novel is undoubtedly one of the greatest romances ever written and it has inspired many other artistic works, of which the most famous are possibly Verdis opera La Traviata and, more recently, Baz Luhrmanns movie Moulin Rouge. It follows almost naturally that a choreographer like John Neumeier would have been drawn to create a ballet based on this famous literary masterpiece.
Neumeier, though born in 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States, has worked for most of his life in Germany where he presently holds the post of Ballettintendant of the Hambu...