excerpt from 'Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life' pp. 16 (61 words)
excerpt from 'Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life' pp. 16 (61 words)
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During the season of 1850, at Her Majesty's, the once celebrated soprano, Madame Pasta, re- appeared in her famous role of Anna Bolena in Donizetti's opera of that name. She was then fifty-three years old. The audience was full of expectation to hear this great artiste; but, un-fortunately, she was quite passee, and sang flat; so her reappearance turned out a fiasco. |
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