excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 151 (160 words)
excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 151 (160 words)
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The D. [Duke of Dorset] took a band of music with him to Mr. Leighton’s at Albano whose guests we were, and we had music all the evening, with delightful singing by Bachelli, commonly called the Mignatrice. She has a very sweet voice with infinite taste – has a good shake, great flexibility, and is more free from affectation of any sort than ever I saw in an Italian singer; but though she sings so admirably, ‘tis not her profession, which is that of painting. However, she is much stronger in the former than the latter. She seems a perfect mistress (has learnt 5 years) and embellishes and changes passages better and more at her ease than any female I ever met with. Upon the whole, her singing is not so much in the great style of an Opera Queen as in that which I should wish a lady of fashion or private gentlewoman to be possessed of. |
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