Patti А. (1845-1919), singer

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PATTI Adelina (1845-1919), Italian singer (soprano). In 1859, she made her debut on the opera stage. She had a unique voice, equally strong in all registers, with a metallic timber and perfect technique. In 1869-77, she performed in St. Petersburg within the Italian opera. Her best-known acts were roles from G. Rossini's Barber of Seville, G. Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and L'elisir d'amore , and V. Bellini's La sonnambula. The Petersburg audience strongly was divided by her performance into enchanted admirers or critics. There were different opinions as to her vocal techniques, with V. V. Stasov, Peter Tchaikovsky, and C. А. Cui criticising the singer in the press, and A. N. Serov defending her. Critics discredited her with a lack of artistic expression and compared her with an unimpassioned machine, easily producing trills and roulades. M. P. Mussorgsky also poked fun at Patti with his satiric vocal routine Raree Show (1870). In 1904 Patti visited Saint Petersburg to give charity concerts to benefit those wounded in the Russian-Japanese War.

References: Аделина Патти: Ее жизнь и артистич. деятельность. СПб., 1869. L. M. Zolotnitskaya, A. L. Porfiryeva. Bellini Vincenzo
Cui Cesar Antonovich
Donizetti Gaetano
Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich
Patti Adelina
Rossini Gioacchino
Serov Alexander Nikolaevich
Stasov Vladimir Vasilievich
Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich
Аделина Патти: Ее жизнь и артистич. деятельность. СПб., 1869 Italian Opera