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Updated: June 12, 2025
The singers rehearsed their parts con amore, and displayed so much intelligence and enthusiasm that Bellini was quite delighted. The first performance just escaped being a failure in spite of the anxious efforts of the singers. Donzelli's suave and charming execution, even "Casta Diva," delivered by Pasta in her most magnificent style, failed to move the cold audience.
Oh yes; and the girl seemed greatly delighted at the idea. And again he cheered up a bit, and returned to the assembly room, and did his best to amuse Monsieur Griffard. They were handing round the tea, and the Countess X had just begun to sing the "Casta Diva," when Abellino's lackey sidled up to his master and whispered in his ear "I have just seen Miss Fanny Meyer descending from a carriage."
As for Hedwig, she pressed her ear to the glass of the window that she might not lose any note. But she would not open nor give any sign. Nino was not so easily discouraged, for he remembered that once before she had opened her window for a few bars he had begun to sing. He played a few chords, and breathed out the "Salve, dimora casta e pura," from Faust, high and soft and clear.
Her voice, a pure soprano of finest quality, brilliant and vibrating, spanned two octaves, from C to C. She possessed the gift of beauty, and was said to unite the tragic inspiration of Pasta with the fire and energy of Malibran. A favorite rôle with her was that of the Druid priestess in "Norma." Her delivery of "Casta Diva" was said to be a transcendant effort of vocalization.
Triple brute that I am, I thought it was my aunt." "Then let me introduce myself. This is Miss Cara." "Casta diva! You do me infinite honour!" "Mr. Jones, I must see Mr. Lennox. It is a matter of life and death." "Lennox is engaged with death now." "What!" "He is preparing for the great adventure. At this moment he is making his will. Miss Cara?" "Yes?"
One of the witnesses, annoyed at being summoned to appear, or bribed by some one of the defendants in order to weaken the prosecution, laid an accusation against Norbanus Licinianus, a member of the deputation, who had been instructed to get up the case, and charged him with having acted in collusion with the other side in relation to Casta, the wife of Classicus.
Pending the fire of Duncan's battery, one section of the battery, under Lieutenant Henry J. Hunt, opened fire on the enemy's lines between the Casta Mata and Molino del Rey. McIntosh fought in close quarters, and charged and drove the enemy in his front, but received three wounds, one of which proved mortal.
As they leaned against the trees, the silver orb of the moon ascended from the horizon, and rested on the brow of Mount Holyoke; and from the same quarter whence Mendelssohn's "Song without Words" had proceeded, the tones of "Casta Diva" rose upon the air. Flora seized her husband's arm with a quick, convulsive grasp, and trembled all over.
To-morrow night, this new sensation this fresh movement this excitement excelling all former excitements will be called into existence, when she pours out the notes of Casta Diva, and exhibits her astonishing powers her wonderful peculiarities, that seem more of heaven than of earth more of a voice from eternity, than from the lips of a human being. "We speak soberly seriously calmly.
Therefore, about once a week I am dressed in the white muslin and the black shoes, which is my gala get-up, and a carriage is sent for me. Then aunty and I are driven to the Concert Hall, where, when my turn comes, I go on the platform and sing, "Casta Diva," "Ah, non Credea," etc., and if I am encored then I sing, "Coming Thro' the Rye."
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