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But she temporarily retired from the stage in consequence of her marriage with M. Viardot, who had fallen deeply in love with the fascinating cantatrice, shortly after his introduction to her.
"No, no," stammered the banker, "but it is very warm here, and I will go out on the terrace a while, if you will permit me." He left his daughter, who seemed to attach little importance to this sudden indisposition of her father's. Goutran went forward to receive his new guests. A murmur of admiration greeted the lady Jane Zeld, the cantatrice.
One engages in play with an infamous gamester, and is stripped perhaps in the very first partie: another is pillaged by an antiquated cantatrice; a third is bubbled by a knavish antiquarian; and a fourth is laid under contribution by a dealer in pictures.
It was at this period that she commenced seriously to study tragic characters, and, though she at first failed in making a strong impression on her audiences, her assiduous attention to sentiment and passion wrought such fruits as to prove how far study and good taste may create the effect of something like inspiration, even on the part of an artist so cool and placid as the great German cantatrice.
She offered to buy the theatre and thus become sole proprietor, sole manager, and sole performer; but, of course, the proposition was refused, luckily for the enraged cantatrice, who would certainly have paid dearly for her experiment. Catalani on closing her English engagement proceeded to Paris.
I discern a distinction, though you may not. The Vestal's fire burns straight." "Who is she?" "It rejoices me that she should be so little known. All the greater the illumination when her light shines out! The signorina Vittoria is a cantatrice who is about to appear upon the boards." "Ah! that completes it." Corte rose to his feet with an air of desperation.
Her melodious voice was soon heard betting heavily, with the most engaging sweetness of manner; and doubling seven times upon the red, she broke the bank, and retired with a charming courtesy and eight thousand pounds in gold and notes." Another dealt with the matter thus: "ROUGE ET NOIR. "The latest coup at Homburg has been made by a cantatrice whose praises all Germany are now ringing.
She acted the rôle with a vehement passion which aroused the deepest feeling in the Parisian mind, for it was a long time since they had heard an artist who was alike so great an actress and so brilliant a vocalist. One writer said, "She is the only cantatrice who acts as well as sings"; said one critic, "She would have made a grand tragedienne."
The leap taken by his spirit from this time to that, was shorter than from the past back to the present. "You do not applaud," said Lena, when the song had ceased. He murmured: "I never do, in drawing-rooms." "A cantatrice expects it everywhere; these creatures live on it." "I'll tell her, if you like, what we thought of it, when I take her down to my sister, presently."
Who did not know from having met her in the Bois the fair Leotine Zalti, the once-famous cantatrice, wife and widow of the Count d'Andillot; the Zalti, whose luxury dazzled all Paris some twenty years ago; the Zalti who acquired an European reputation for the magnificence of her diamonds and pearls?
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