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Updated: June 16, 2025
She only sang the coloratura music, though she loved Wagner and dramatic music. Not long before she died she said to me: 'Luisa, always keep to the coloratura music, and the beautiful bel canto singing; do nothing to strain your voice; preserve its velvety quality. Patti's voice went to C sharp, in later years; mine has several tones higher.
He did remember it; he remembered having edited telegraph for a newspaper on the night when Patti's voice was first heard in this great home of music. "Biggest theater in the world," said Witherspoon. "Bigger than La Scala of Milan?" Henry asked. "Beats anything in the world, and I remember when the ground could have been bought for see that lot over there?" he broke off, pointing.
It seemed to me that he was but vaguely conscious of the meaning of her words; her gestures, her voice and glance, made an absorbing harmony. There is something painful in the spectacle of absolute enthralment, even to an excellent cause. I gave no response to Pickering's challenge, but made some remark upon the charm of Adelina Patti's singing.
Patti for the first time in New York, I could not help indulging in the following rhapsody: "The ordinary epithets applicable to a voice, such as sweet, sympathetic, flexible, expressive, sound almost too commonplace to be applied to Patti's voice at its best, as it was when she sang the valse Ombra Leggiera from 'Dinora, and 'Home, Sweet Home. Her voice has a natural sensuous charm like a Cremona violin, which it is a pleasure to listen to, irrespective of what she happens to be singing.
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