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Some Famous Singers of the 19th Century

Some Famous Singers of the 19th Century

Rogers, Francis

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ISBN10: 115132826X
ISBN13: 9781151328267
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Some Conclusions N selecting for review the lives of a few of the famous singers of the nineteenth century, I have limited myself to the group of memorable artists that shared with Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti the operatic glories of their epoch. Lack of space has forbidden me to do more than refer to Alboni, whose contralto voice may well have been the most perfect of the whole century, and I have not even mentioned Pisaroni, another contralto, whom Chorley named as worthy of a place in his ideal quartet, in company with Pasta, Duprez and Lablache. Then there were Persiani, the most accomplished coloratura singer of the period, for whom Donizetti wrote the part of Lucia, and Ronconi, too, the baritone whose artistic quality made one oblivious to the mediocrity of his voice. But, without fuller or further reference to these four worthy singers, we shall find that the careers of those I have written about furnish ample material from which to draw some interesting and instructive conclusions, m How did these singers compare with those of our own time? Were their voices better in quality, or better trained in technique? Were they better musicians or more resourceful actors? Such questions as these are unanswerable, but of one thing we may be sure: the qualities that made these old singers famous in their day and generation, would, if they were living and singing now, make them just as famous as they were then. We could count upon Garcia and Malibran for a performance of Carmen as thrilling as any we have ever had in America. What an Isolde would Pasta make, and that Lablache died too soon to sing Verdi's Falstaff deprives the world of what unquestionably would have been one of the most perfect impersonations in all operatic history! As I have said, t...

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