Adelina Patti

Adelina Patti

Background information
Born	19 February 1843 Madrid, Spain
Died	27 September 1919 (age 76)
Genres	Opera, Traditional music
Occupations	Coloratura soprano
Years active	1859-1906
Labels	Gramophone and Typewriter Company
Associated acts	Home! Sweet Home!, Lucia, Amina, Violetta, Zerlina, Rosina

Adelina Patti (February 19, 1843 –September 27, 1919) was a highly acclaimed 19th century opera diva, earning huge fees at the height of her career.

Along with her contemporaries Jenny Lind, Thérèse Tietjens and Christina Nilsson, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history due to the pure beauty of her lyric voice and the unsurpassed quality of her bel canto technique. The composer Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest vocalist that he ever heard.

1 Biography
2 Voice
3 References
- 3.1 Notes
4 External links

Biography

She was born Adela Juana Maria Patti,¹ the last child of tenor Salvatore Patti (1800–1869) and soprano Caterina Barilli (died 1870). Her Italian parents were working in Madrid, Spain, at the time. As her father was Sicilian, Patti was born a subject of the King of the Two Sicilies. She later carried a French passport, as her first two husbands were French.

Her sisters Amalia and Carlotta Patti were also singers. In her childhood, the family moved to New York City. Patti grew up in the Wakefield section of the Bronx,² where her family's home is still standing. Patti sang professionally from childhood, and developed into a coloratura soprano. It is believed that Patti learned much of her singing technique from her brother-in-law Maurice Strakosch. Later in life Patti, like many famous singers, claimed that she was entirely self-taught.

Development

Adelina Patti made her operatic debut at age 16 in 1859 in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Academy of Music, New York.¹ On 24 August 1860, she and Emma Albani were soloists in the world premiere of Charles Wugk Sabatier's Cantata in Montreal which was performed in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales. In 1861, at the age of 18, she was invited to Covent Garden, to take the soprano rôle of Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula.¹ She had such success that she bought a house in Clapham and, using London as a base, went on to conquer the continent, performing Amina in Paris and Vienna in subsequent years with equal success.

Then, in 1862, she sang John Howard Payne's Home, Sweet Home at the White House for Abraham and Mary Lincoln, who were mourning for their son Willie, who had died of typhoid. The Lincolns were moved to tears and requested an encore. This song would become associated with Adelina Patti. She performed it many times as an encore by popular request.

Portrait by Franz Winterhalter (1862)

Patti's career was one of success after success. She sang in the United States, all over Europe, including Russia; and in South America, inspiring popular frenzy and critical raves wherever she went. Her girlish good looks made her an appealing stage presence. In her prime, she reportedly had a beautiful soprano voice of birdlike purity. She excelled in both soubrette roles like Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Rosina in The Barber of Seville; famous coloratura parts like Lucia di Lammermoor and La sonnambula, as well as lyric roles in Gounod's Faust and Roméo et Juliette.

Patti was an unadventurous singer. Her concert programs during the last part of her career invariably consisted of familiar songs, especially "Home Sweet Home", sung to adoring audiences. However, she was an effective actress in lyric roles that called for deep emotions, like Gilda in Rigoletto, Leonora in Il trovatore, Semiramide, and Violetta in La traviata. As her voice matured, she took on weightier parts in operas like L'Africaine, Les Huguenots, and Aida. Overall, though she was perhaps unadventurous and old-fashioned (she sang no verismo parts), her repertoire was quite large and varied.

It is related that impresario Maurice Strakosch presented Patti (his sister-in-law) to sing at Rossini's receptions in Paris. She sang "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville, with fioriturae added by Strakosch to show off her voice. "What composition was that?", asked Rossini - "Why, maestro, your own" replied Strakosch. "Oh no, that is not my composition, that is Strakoschonnerie", Rossini retorted. ('Cochonnerie' is a strong French idiom indicating "garbage" and literally meaning "that which is characteristic of or fit for pigs.")³

Financial success and recordings

In her prime, Patti demanded to be paid $5000 a night, in gold, before the performance. Her contracts stipulated that her name be top-billed and larger than any other name in the cast. Her contracts also said that while she was "free to attend all rehearsals, she was not obligated to attend any."

In his memoirs, the famous impresario "Colonel" Mapleson recalled Patti's stubborn personality and sharp business sense. She reportedly had a parrot whom she had trained to shriek, "CASH! CASH!" whenever Mapleson walked in the room.

Patti caricatured by the French artist André Gill (1840-1885).

In 1893 Patti created the title role in Emilio Pizzi's Gabriella for its world premiere in Boston. Patti had commissioned Pizzi to write the opera for her. Her last tour to the United States in 1903 was a critical and personal failure. From then on she restricted herself to the occasional concert here or there, or to private performances at the little theater she built in her home at Craig-y-Nos in Wales.

Patti cut 21 (gramophone) recordings of songs and operatic arias (some of them duplicates) and one spoken voice recording (a new year's greeting to her third husband, which she intended him to keep as a lasting memento) at her Welsh home in 1905 and 1906.⁴ By then she was aged in her 60s, with her voice well past its prime. Many decades of busy use had weakened her breath control. Nonetheless, the limpid purity of her tone and the smoothness of her legato line remained uniquely impressive.¹ The records also display a lively singing personality as well as a surprisingly strong chest voice and a mellow timbre. Her trill is wonderful and her diction excellent. Overall her discs have a charm and musicality that give us a hint of why, at her peak, she commanded $5,000 a night.

The records were produced by the Gramophone & Typewriter Company (the foreunner of HMV). Patti's piano accompanist Landon Ronald wrote: "When the little trumpet gave forth the beautiful tones, she went into ecstasies! She threw kisses into the trumpet and kept on saying, 'Ah! Mon Dieu! Maintenant je comprends pourquoi je suis Patti! Oh oui! Quelle voix! Quelle artiste! Je comprends tout!' [Ah! Goodness me! Now I understand why I am Patti! Oh yes! What a voice! What an artist! I understand everything!] Her enthusiasm was so naïve and genuine that the fact that she was praising her own voice seemed to us all to be right and proper."

Patti's complete surviving recordings were reissued on CD in 1998 by Marston Records (52011-2).

Personal life

Adelina Patti

Patti's personal life was not as successful as her professional life. It was not as disastrous as that of many operatic singers. She is thought by some to have had a dalliance with the tenor Giovanni Mario, who is said to have bragged at Patti's first wedding that he had already "made love to her many times."

Engaged as a minor to Henri de Lossy, Baron of Ville,⁵ Patti married three times: first, in 1868, to Henri de Roger de Cahusac, marquess of Caux (1826-1889). The marriage soon collapsed; both had affairs and de Caux was granted a legal separation in 1877 and divorced in 1885. The union was dissolved with bitterness and cost her half her fortune. There was a report in The New York Times in April 1875 that the Marquis was killed in a duel in St Petersburg whilst Adelina was fulfilling a professional engagement.

She then lived with the tenor Ernesto Nicolini (1834-1898) for many years until, following her divorce from Caux, she was able to marry him in 1886. That marriage lasted until his death and was seemingly happy, but Nicolini cut Patti out of his will, suggesting some tension in the last years.

Patti's last marriage, in 1899, was to Baron Rolf Cederström (1870–1947), a priggish, but handsome, Swedish aristocrat many years her junior. He severely curtailed Patti's social life. He cut down her domestic staff from 40 to 18, but gave her the devotion and flattery that she needed. He became Patti's sole legatee. After her death, he married a woman much younger than he. Their only daughter, Brita Yvonne Cederström (born 1924), became Adelina Patti's sole heir.

Patti had no children, but was close to her nieces and nephews. The Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Patti LuPone is a great-grand niece and namesake.

In her retirement, Adelina Patti, Baroness Cederström, settled in the Swansea valley in south Wales, where she purchased Craig-y-Nos Castle.⁶ There she had her own private theatre, a miniature version of the one at Bayreuth.⁷ She made her recordings at Craig-y-Nos. She is said to haunt this castle, and her voice is reported to have been heard in the auditorium yet nobody can be seen. On one occasion a crew were recording an interview in the theatre and while in the kitchen they were discussing the fact that Adelina Patti had never mastered the role of Carmen. Suddenly a heavy saucepan flew onto the floor which had been placed on a large cooker, far enough away from the edge.⁸

She also funded the substantial station building at Craig y Nos/Penwyllt on the Neath and Brecon Railway.⁹ In 1918, she presented the Winter Garden building from her Craig-y-Nos estate to the city of Swansea. It was re-erected and renamed the Patti Pavilion. She died at Craig-y-Nos and eight months later was buried near her father at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Voice

Adelina Patti had a rich, crystalline, very clear, and very agile high soprano voice.¹⁰ Her vocal emission was of perfect equality and her vocal range was wide, from low c to high f (c₄ - f₆).¹¹

References

Cone, Frederick (2003). Adelina Patti: Queen of Hearts. New York: Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0931340608.
Klein, Herman (1977). Andrea Hicks. ed. The Reign of Patti. Opera Biographies. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 0405096860.
Mapleson, James Henry (1966). Harold Rosenthal. ed. The Mapleson Memoirs; The Career of an Operatic Impresario, 1858-1888. New York: Appleton-Century. ISBN 0370000803.
Scott, Michael. The Record of Singing to 1914. Duckworth. ISBN 0715610309.
Stanley Sadie, ed (1997). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. New York, New York: Macmillian Reference Limited. p. 918. ISBN 0333734327.

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sadie: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 918
^ Bronx County Clerk's Office
^ Wilhelm Koch (Ed.), Aus meinem Kunst- und Bühnenleben. Erinnerungen des Bassisten Karl Formes (Cologne 1888).
^ Discography compiled by W. R. Moran and appears in the appendix to Klein's Reign of Patti referenced above.
^ George Putnam Upton, "Musical Memories: My Recollections of Celebrities of the Half Century, 1850-1900" (AC McClurg, 1908), page 40
^ Upper Swansea Valley - Craig-y-nos Castle 1 at history.powys.org.uk
^ Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales University of Wales Press (2008) ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6
^ BBC
^ Another view of Craig y Nos / Penwyllt looking south on 14th April 2006. It has been documented that the substantial station building was funded by opera singer Adelina Patti who lived at Craig-Y-Nos Castle
^ "Adelina Patti - Encyclopédie Larousse"
^ "Adelina Patti - Encyclopédie Larousse"

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Adelina Patti

Adelina Patti on opera-singer.co.uk
Biography on BBC Wales
A digital collection of items relating to Adelina Patti
Adelina Patti as Juliet (1878), one of many Patti-related documents housed in the Alfredo Barili Papers at the Georgia Archives.

Persondata
NAME	Patti, Adelina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Opera Singer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 10, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	September 27, 1919
PLACE OF DEATH

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Adelina Patti (1843-1919) - Famed C19 Opera Star and Larger-Than ...: There is also a record of Adelina Patti's speaking voice, made in 1905 but only issued in 1973 with her complete recordings. It is a message for her husband ... ... which is tender and heart-felt. And which makes the legend real in a ...
Camille Silvy at the National Portrait Gallery: The main focus of his attention was the international operatic star Adelina Patti, and it has been said that as a model she brought out the best in his talent. It's sad to think that Camille Silvy has been left unnoticed for so long, ...
Adelina Patti and Craig-y-nos- some little known facts: Patti with her god-daughter on the lake at Craig-y-nos. Here's some facts I have just discovered: Did you know that Patti's father and godfather were both professors of music in Madrid? and that her family came originally from Sicily in ...
Some Adelina Patti ghost stories: I make no apologies for adding these ghost stories to my history of Craig-y-nos as a TB sanatorium for children because the aura of Patti was with us every day we were there. She was an invisible, benign presence. The child soloist ...
The Voice of Adelina Patti: Subject: The Voice of Adelina Patti Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:30:45 EST. This is available as a sound clip from. _www.historicmasters.org/?q=node/36_ (http://www.historicmasters.org/?q=node/36). singing Mozart's “Voi che sapete” from “Il ...
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field: ... like the sensation that a wonderful opera singer Adelina Patti caused in Philadelphia, and what it might have been like to meet Charles Dickens, as well as changes in fashion, schooling, and what were considered basic manners. ...
Adelina Patti 1863: Why settle for a print or poster when you can catch many admirers with this museum quality oil painting in your own living room or at your office? How about giving the art reproduction as a gift? Buy Adelina Patti 1863 reproduction from ...
Staff and patients in Adelina Patti theatre - 1951: This was taken in 1951 and looks like a gathering of patients and staff , probably for Christmas. Craig-y-nos Castle.
The Adelina Patti hospital -two views: Here are two very different views of Craig-y-nos Castle while it was a TB sanatorium. The first is greeting card of a romantic painting showing the hospital by moonlight. The second is of the hospital as it was in 1956 with the ...
Childrens pantomine in Adelina Patti theatre: This photo came from the Sleeping Giant Foundation, probably from the mid 1940's. Craig-y-nos Castle.
'TO THE VALE OF LYMPSTONE': In 1890 she had sent verses to the great and famous soprano, Adelina Patti, who had replied by sending to her a signed photograph inscribed 'to Mrs Alice Fildew with many thanks for charming verses. – Adelina Patti Nicolini. ...
Joe Longthorne to perform in the Adelina Patti Theatre: Craig y Nos Castle lies in the quiet and picturesque Swansea Vallley and for one night only Joe will bring the Valleys back to life with fantasic song.
Adelina Patti cd or lp on Pearl Gemm-- commercial availability?: ... much superior transfers than the Pearl Neville in England ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conrad, Stephen A." To: Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:07 PM Subject: Adelina Patti cd or lp on Pearl Gemm-- commercial availability? ...
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1880's Adelina Patti: By the 1890's Adelina Patti was one of the most famous women in the world and certainly one of the highest paid. She was comfortable with people of all classes, from monarchs to kitchen maids and was universally liked. ...
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Entertainers of Neath Port Talbot: Adelina Patti, who had also opened the Grand Theatre in 1897, had appeared there when she was a world super star. Sadly, the Gwyn Hall was gutted by a fire in 2007 prior to re-opening following a multi-million refurbishment. ...
Adelina Patti cd or lp on Pearl Gemm-- commercial availability?: is there commercially available the Pearl Gemm recording of Patti arias on cd or lp? I cannot figure out how to use the Pavillion Records website. I am esp, interested in her "Ah, no credea mirarti." Thanks. ...
Camille Silvy a photographer of modern life - wayneford's posterous: Above Adelina Patti as Harriet in Martha,1861 by Camille Silvy. The curator Mark Haworth-Booth, suggests that Camille Silvy came closest in photography to embodying the vision of 'the painter of modern life' as outlined by Charles ...
Adelina Patti Sings: Adelina Patti, world famous opera singer, lived there for over 50 years. She entertained the "great and the good" including Royalty, with concerts in her private theatre. She died after falling down a flight of stairs. ...
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Legendary Soprano Adelina Patti Autograph Letter Signed: Legendary Soprano Adelina Patti Autograph Letter Signed. An autograph letter signed adelina patti nicolini, on windsor hotel, new york letterhead, january 22, 1892, by the legendary soprano, considered by verdi to be the best voiec he'd ...
Sweet Adeline: 1903 ... "Any Rags?" by Arthur Collins 1902 ... "In the Good Old Summer Time" by JW Myers [Adeline was Adelina Patti, a 19th century singer of renown, and froma billboard sign of her parting came the song]
Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (2DVD) - Kathleen Battle: For twenty-five years, until 1909, when she presented Act II at her Gala Farewell, Sembrich sang every Rosina but one (and that matinee in 1892 starred another legendary coloratura soprano, Adelina Patti). ...
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Pale yet lovely, glazed and beautiful.: Many china heads, especially those with unusual hair styles, are called "portrait dolls" and are named for those they are supposed to resemble-Queen Victoria, Mary Todd Lincoln, Dolly Madison, Countess Dagmar, Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, ...
Delicious musty books start the weekend: The sheet music is occasionally interrupted by pictures of once famous singers like Jenny Lind and Adelina Patti. The foreword also mentions, but unfortunately does not include, the many stories of how these songs had impacted the ...
A wee ghost story to start the week: It began to move around a bit, and I think for a while, we ended up with two of the perishers, after buying two big cupboards from the very haunted Theatre of Adelina Patti at Craig-Y-Nos. Shortly after those arrived, I woke in the wee ...
Adelina Patti portrait owned by Versace goes under hammer (icwales): BEFORE his shocking murder, Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace loved nothing more than entertaining friends like Princess Diana, Sting, Madonna and Elton John at his lavish Lake Como villa.
The “Patti Jacket”, 1865: “The newest thing in Paris, this spring,” according to the May 1865 issue of Peterson's magazine, “is the Patti jacket, so called after the famous opera singer, Adelina Patti.” The article goes on to say that “it is an exceedingly ...
Adelina Patti: Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 - September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard. ...

Adelina Patti

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Biography

Development

Financial success and recordings

Personal life

Voice

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