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Adelina Patti ( 19 February 184327 September 1919 ) was a highly acclaimed 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America.
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There she sang, alongside Adelina Patti, the leading soprano of the time, a stanza of Dies irae, " Liber scriptum ", adjusted to the music of the duet " Quis est Homo " from Rossini ’ s own Stabat Mater.
* United Kingdom: 22 June 1876, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Adelina Patti as Aida, Ernesto Nicolini as Radamès, and Francesco Graziani as Amonasro
It was frequently performed in New York, the role of Marie being a favorite with Jenny Lind, Henriette Sontag, Pauline Lucca, Anna Thillon and Adelina Patti.
His two hundred clients eventually included Charles Gounod, Jacques Offenbach, Adelina Patti, Mario, Clara Schumann, Antoinette Sterling, Edward Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, George Grossmith, Matthew Arnold, James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde.
His mother set up as voice teacher in London, where he met leading performers, including members of George Edwardes's Gaiety Theatre company, classical musicians such as Landon Ronald, and singers such as Adelina Patti.
Laurent-Perrier again took the lead in this area with advertisements touting their wine's favour with the Countess of Dudley, the wife of the 9th Earl of Stamford, the wife of the Baron Tollemache, and the opera singer Adelina Patti.
Indeed, Adelina Patti and Luisa Tetrazzini were the only Italian sopranos to enjoy star status in London and New York in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras, while such well-known compatriots and coevals of theirs as Gemma Bellincioni and Eugenia Burzio ( among several others ) failed to please Anglo-Saxon ears because, unlike Patti and Tetrazzini, they possessed unsteady, vibrato-laden voices — see Scott for evaluations of their respective techniques.
She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti.
With the influence of the first director, Jules Cohen ( who was instrumental in bringing Adelina Patti ) and the fortunate combination of Raoul Gunsbourg, the new director from 1883, and Princess Alice, the opera-loving American wife of Charles III's successor, Albert I, the company was thrust onto the world's opera community stage.
On 24 August 1860 she and Adelina Patti were soloists in the world premiere of Charles Wugk Sabatier's Cantata in Montreal which was performed in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales.
The label was named after 19th century African-American singer Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, who was nicknamed The Black Patti after famous opera star Adelina Patti.
Adelina Patti made her operatic debut at age 16 on 24 November 1859 in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Academy of Music, New York.
Henceforth, it would become associated with Adelina Patti, and she performed it many times as a bonus item at the end of recitals and concerts.
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Piñero was born on December 19, 1946 in Gurabo, Puerto Rico to Miguel Angel Gómez Ramos and Adelina Piñero.
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Adelina Patti, the premiere soprano of an earlier generation, and not known for generosity towards other singers, was a fan of Tetrazzini's singing, and made it a point to attend and loudly applaud the younger soprano's performances.
With the influence of the first director, Jules Cohen ( who was instrumental in bringing Adelina Patti ) and the fortunate combination of Raoul Gunsbourg, the new director from 1892, and Princess Alice, the opera-loving American wife of Charles III's successor, Albert I, the company was thrust onto the world's opera community stage.
Redgrave was the eldest of five siblings including, Zoe Adelina " Dolly " Elsworthy ( b. 1876 ), Cornelius ( b. 1878 ), Christopher ( b. 1879 ) and Harriet ( b. 1880 ).
Granado was born on August 8, 1922, in Hernando, province of Córdoba, Argentina to Dionisio T. Granado ( a Spanish clerical employee of an Argentine railway company ) and Adelina Jiménez Romero.
At the Birmingham festival of 1864 was given Michael Costa's new work Naaman, where ( as Elisha ) he sang opposite Sims Reeves and the young Adelina Patti ( then making her first appearance in oratorio ).
He was born in Concepción on the son of Eulogio Altamirano Araceda and Antonia Adelina Talavera Appleby.
It was initially used as a shortened form of names such as Karolina, Nikolina, Adelina, Evelina and Carolina but eventually became a name in its own right.
* It was a particular favorite of President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, who requested it in an 1862 performance at the White House by opera singer Adelina Patti.
While the Domesday Book makes it clear that there was a church in Bourne in 1066 and there is a suggestion that there was an Anglo-Saxon abbey ( see David Roffe's link below ), as far as is firmly known, the abbey was founded as a monastic institution, by a charter granted in 1138, by Baldwin fitz Gilbert de Clare ( with the consent of Roger his son and Adelina his wife ).
Adelina was a great-granddaughter of Hereward the Wake, though the connection with the Wake family was not made until the generation after Baldwin and Adelina, when their daughter, Emma married Hugh Wake.
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On December 9, 1889 President Benjamin Harrison dedicated the building and opera star, Adelina Patti, sang ‘ Home Sweet Home ’ to thunderous applause.
He asked Italian opera star Adelina Patti to perform it for him and his wife when she appeared at the White House in 1862.
As well as changing her last name to Genée, she changed her first name to Adeline in honour of the Italian opera star Adelina Patti.
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* Adelina Patti as Juliet ( 1878 ), one of many Patti-related documents housed in the Alfredo Barili Papers at the Georgia Archives.
Pagliacci premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on May 21, 1892, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, Victor Maurel as Tonio, and Mario Ancona as Silvio.
Clearly, Tamagno's recordings were aimed at upper-crust customers, as were those made by such eminent contemporaries of his as Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Pol Plançon and Mattia Battistini.
She married very young, at first marriage with Adelina Diaz de Bedoya, which unfortunately widowed and married later, in second marriage, Mrs. Josefina Rivarola.
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