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There was an updated Traviata, called "Camille" (which is in itself an absurdity that always made Sarah Bernhardt shake her head at the English), written by
I have only recently learned of the composer Pietro Floridia, who was born in 1860, had a number of operas performed in Italy, but then, rather like Leoni, had