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Updated: May 31, 2025
"If you want a success," said Nathan, "instead of screaming, 'He is saved! like a Fury, walk on quite quietly, go to the staircase, and say, 'He is saved, in a chest voice, like Pasta's 'O patria, in Tancreda. There, go along!" and he pushed her towards the stage. "It is too late," said Vernou, "the effect has hung fire." "What did she do? the house is applauding like mad," asked Lousteau.
When Pasta's glimmering little light first shone in London, Fodor and Camporese were in the full blaze of their reputation both brilliant singers, but destined to pale into insignificance afterward before the intense splendor of Pasta's perfected genius. One of the notices of the opening performance at the King's Theatre, when Mme.
Pasta, who occupied a stage box, led the applause whenever her beautiful young rival appeared, and Grisi, her eyes glowing with happy tears, went to Pasta's box to thank the queen of lyric tragedy for her cordial homage. "Don Giovanni" was performed with the same cast in January, 1838, at the Théâtre Italiens.
To perform such a work as that of Cherubini required Pasta's tragic genius united with the voice of a Catalani, made, as it were, of adamant and gold. To such an ideal equipment of powers, Titiens approached more nearly than any other singer who had ever assayed the rôle in more recent times.
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