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The Daughter of an Obscure German Pastor. She studies Music in Paris. Failure of her Voice. Makes her Début at La Fenice. She appears in London during the Lind Excitement. Description of her Voice and Person. A Great Excitement over her Second Appearance in Italy. Début in Paris. Her Grand Impersonation in "Fidelio." Critical Estimates of her Genius. Sophie Cruvelli's Eccentricities.
Cruel rumors were circulated at her expense; but she showed herself as independent of scandal as she had been of professional loyalty to a contract. Sophie Cruvelli's engagement at the Grand Opéra in Paris in January, 1854, filled Paris with the deepest excitement, for she was to make her appearance in the part of Valentine in "Les Huguenots."
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