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The signs were there almost from birth. Both parents were successful singers, her father, Salvatore, a tenor from Sicily and her mother, Caterina, the daughter of Rome’s best-known singing coach and a renowned soprano in her own right. In February 1843 a heavily pregnant Caterina was performing in the lead role of Bellini’s Norma at the ...
Guiseppi Verdi was a particularly big fan, describing her in 1877 as perhaps the finest singer who’d ever lived. Over the years, Patti’s voice also changed from the “birdlike purity” of her youth. It became fuller, more versatile. She excelled in dramatic roles in operas such as Aida, Les Huguenots and La traviata.
Apr 30, 2020 · Adelina Patti (1843 – 1919) Adela Juana Maria was born on 10th February 1843 in Madrid, the youngest child of opera singer parents Caterina and Salvatore Patti. The family moved to the US in 1846 when Adelina was three. She spent 63 years enthralling the music world, giving her first public performance at the tender age of 8 and her last at ...
Aug 1, 2018 · By any measure, Adelina Patti (1843–1919) must be considered the leading singer, if not the leading musician, of the later nineteenth century. Her sizable body of recordings (twenty-eight) makes her a key witness to late nineteenth-century performance style. Her great celebrity also ensured lavish written documentation of her life, including what she did, what people said about her, and ...
- Roger Freitas
- 2018
Effie Germon (sister-in-law) Patti LuPone (great-great niece) Signature. Adelina Patti (19 February 1843 – 27 September 1919) [1] was an Italian opera singer. At the height of her career, she was earning huge fees performing in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance ...
Feb 10, 2019 · Adelina Patti, or Adela Juana Maria Patti, was born on February 10, 1843 in Madrid, Spain and would go from being a child prodigy to one of the greatest sopranos of all time. Her parents were opera singers and from the earliest years of her training, her instructors had believed that Patti had the potential to to become one of the greatest coloratura singers of the 19th century.
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Oct 31, 2017 · After her death, he married a much younger woman. Their only daughter, Brita Yvonne Cederström (born 1924), ended up as Patti’s sole heir. Patti had no children, but was close to her nieces and nephews. The two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Patti LuPone is a great-grand niece and namesake.
