Monday, April 8, 2013

Patti's "Carmen"

Speranza

The Golden Age of Opera - Pagina 63
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Until the spring of 1878 very few Londoners had heard of an opera called Carmen. Then suddenly the title appeared at the head of the list of Covent Garden novelties : " To be given for the first time in England ; the principal role by Madame Adelina Patti. ... Paris when brought out at the Opera-Comique in March 1875 ; and had not the composer, Georges Bizet, died of a broken heart three months later?

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