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Adelina Patti | |
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| Born | Adelina Juana Maria Patti 19 February 1843 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | 27 September 1919 (aged 76) Craig-y-Nos Castle, Wales |
| Occupation | Lyric coloratura soprano |
| Label | Gramophone and Typewriter Company |
| Spouse(s) | Henri de Roger de Cahusac Ernesto Nicolini Rolf Cederström |
| Relatives | Carlotta Patti (sister) Effie Germon (sister-in-law) Patti LuPone (great-great niece) |
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Adelina Patti (19 February 1843 – 27 September 1919)[1] was an Italian opera singer. At the height of her career, she was earning huge fees performing in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914. Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Thérèse Tietjens, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history, owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her bel canto technique.
The composer Giuseppe Verdi, writing in 1877, described her as being perhaps the finest singer who had ever lived and a "stupendous artist".[2] Verdi's admiration for Patti's talent was shared by numerous music critics and social commentators of her era.
- ^ "Musical Notes". Indianapolis Journal. 7 April 1901. p. 14, col. 4. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
Her birth date is sometimes given as 19 February 1843. 'Mme. Adelina Patti's birth certificate, found in the book of baptisms of the city of Madrid, No. 42, p. 153, shows that she was born in the afternoon of 10 February 1843,...'
- ^ Cone, John Frederick; William R. Moran (1993). Adelina Patti: queen of hearts. Amadeus Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-931340-60-4.