Chopin in Warsaw - June, 1830

from Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin, pages 47-48:

The same thing happened again yesterday with Rode's Variations. She [Mlle Sontag] sang us that celebrated cavatina from the Barber and the one from The Thieving Magpie; you wouldn't believe how different it is from what you have hitherto heard. She also sang the aria from Freischutz, you know the one I mean, marvellously.

cite as

Bronislaw Edward Sydow (Comp) and Chopin, and Arthur Hedley (ed.), Selected Correspondance of Fryderyck Chopin (Prescot, 1962), p. 47-48. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426077735057 accessed: 4 October, 2024

location of experience: Warsaw

Listeners

Chopin
Composer, Pianist
1810-1849

Listening to

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Aria from Der Freischütz
written by Carl Maria von Weber
performed by Mile Sontag
cavatina from The Barber of Seville
written by Rossini
performed by Mile Sontag
cavatina from The Thieving Magpie
written by Rossini
performed by Mile Sontag

Experience Information

Date/Time June, 1830
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:42:15 +0000
Approved on Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:51:44 +0100