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.

Her first voice teacher was her elder sister, Eva Tetrazzini ( 1862 – 1938 ), who also was a successful singer.

Tetrazzini made her American debut in San Francisco in 1905.

At Boston, the Australian soprano Evelyn Scotney deputised for her in Lucia di Lammermoor, and the critics considered her " even better than Tetrazzini ", an indication of the esteem in which Tetrazzini's name was held.

Lyrics mentioning her name (' My figure's just like Tetrazzini '.

Opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini began with the song in her free public concert in the streets of San Francisco, California on Christmas Eve, 1910.

It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

In 1908, Tetrazzini finally appeared in New York, not at the Metropolitan, but at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company, again as Violetta and again with great success.

Tetrazzini had a bitter feud with Nellie Melba at Covent Garden but was generally well liked by other colleagues, including Enrico Caruso and Frieda Hempel.

During his ten years of flying experience, DeLay conducted aerial rides with politicians, actors, and unusual personalities, such as opera diva ( Luisa Tetrazzini ) and a princess ( Tsianina ).

) is always ready with his enthusiasm, in large type, for Tetrazzini, Caruso, Busoni, Strauss, Puccini, Nikisch, Campanini, Van Rooy, Stravinski, Chaliapine, Debussy, Pavlova, Karsavina, Nijinski, Mengelberg, Steinbach, Schönberg, Savonoff, Paderewski, Elman, and a few other aliens!

* April 28 – Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian opera singer ( b. 1871 )

Luisa Tetrazzini ( June 29, 1871 – April 28, 1940 ) was an Italian coloratura soprano of great international fame.

Tetrazzini was born in Florence, the daughter of a military tailor.

Tetrazzini later studied at the Istituto Musicale in Florence.

On a crystal clear Christmas Eve in 1910, at the corner of Market and Kearney near Lotta's Fountain, Tetrazzini climbed a stage platform in a sparkling white gown, surrounded by a throng of an estimated two to three-hundred thousand San Franciscans, and serenaded the city she loved.

In 1907 Tetrazzini made a sensational debut as Violetta in La traviata at Covent Garden in London, where she was completely unknown, and from that point on she was an international operatic superstar, commanding the highest fees and selling out opera houses and concert halls wherever she performed.

Tetrazzini was short and grew stout as she aged ; but she could act effectively on stage, especially in lively or comic roles.

After World War I, Tetrazzini largely abandoned the opera stage for the concert platform.

She would often say, " I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.

Tetrazzini died in Milan on April 28, 1940.

Luisa is thought to be eponymous of the popular American dish Turkey Tetrazzini, which allegedly originated in San Francisco, where she resided for years.

Additionally, there is a reference to Tetrazzini in the 1916 song " When Priscilla Tries to Reach High C ", written by Harry von Tilzer.

* Luisa Tetrazzini, 2 volumes: 1, 2 ; Nimbus.

* Luisa Tetrazzini: The Complete Zonophone ( 1904 ) and Victor Recordings ( 1911 – 20 ); Romophone.

* Tetrazzini at archive. org

* Luisa Tetrazzini singing along to a Caruso record of " M ' appari, Tutt ' Amor " when she retired in 1932.

The role of the male hero was usually entrusted to a castrato, and by the 18th century, when Italian opera was performed throughout Europe, leading castrati who possessed extraordinary vocal virtuosity, such as Senesino and Farinelli, became international stars.

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Thus, from birth, Charles Stewart Parnell possessed an extraordinary number of links to many elements of society ; he was linked to the old Irish Parliamentary tradition via his great-grandfather and grandfather, to the American War of Independence via his grandfather, to the War of 1812 ( where his grandfather had been awarded a gold medal by the United States Congress for gallantry ); he belonged to the disestablished Church of Ireland ( its members mostly unionists ) though in later years he was to drop away from formal church attendance ; and he was connected with the aristocracy through the Powerscourts.

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Horne possessed extraordinary versatility, but, except in the case of Orion, he never attained to a very high degree of distinction.

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Elizabeth Howe, in The First English Actresses, says she was " the most famous Restoration actress of all time, possessed of an extraordinary comic talent.

Baïf possessed an extraordinary facility, and the mass of his work has injured his reputation.

He showed himself possessed of an extraordinary genius for war, and Marshal Villars paid him the high compliment of saying that he was as courageous in attack as he was prudent in retreat, and that by his extraordinary knowledge of the country he displayed in the management of his troops a skill as great as that of the ablest officers.

One of the quickest and most brilliant, if not the very first, of Wellington's generals, he had a fiery temper, which rendered him a difficult man to deal with, but to the day of his death he possessed the confidence and affection of his men in an extraordinary degree.

Living creatures possessed by extraordinary jealousy or rage can release their spirit as an ikiryō 生き霊, a living ghost that can enact its will while still alive.

Although, at 31 years of age, Ablett possessed an extraordinary goals-per-game average of 3. 5, the best of any non-specialist full-forward in the history of the game, he agreed to the permanent switch up forward, relinquishing his roaming position in the midfield in the process.

He was an ordinary man, Imok possessed an extraordinary desire to provide for his family a green pasture which served as his inspiration to work hard.

Admiring the extraordinary courage possessed by his father, Simba tries to prove himself as brave as Mufasa by venturing into an known an " Elephant Graveyard " with his closest friend Nala and, to his annoyance, the hornbill Zazu, who tracks him them down.

Westphal, he possessed extraordinary linguistic gifts, and he was a polyglot.

In addition to possessing vast size ( varying from about nine feet, to hundreds of meters tall ), vastly superhuman strength, extraordinary durability ( by the end of the Crisis series he was able to effortlessly withstand blows from Superman, and even surviving a blue star going supernova ), the ability to project destructive bolts of energy, and greatly augmenting another beings ' powers ( as he did with Psycho-Pirate, whose powers were increased to levels too much for him to handle ), the Anti-Monitor also possessed reality-warping abilities, which he displayed by removing Psycho-Pirate's face.

The environment is too variable and indeterminate, according to Chomsky, to explain the extraordinary ability to learn complex concepts possessed by very young children.