Rossini - the 1800's
from Musical Memories, page 207:
Unfortunately I was not there the evening that Patti sang for Rossini the first time. We know that after she had sung the aria from Le Barbier, he said to her, after the usual compliments,
"Who wrote that aria you just sang?"
I saw him three days afterwards and he hadn't cooled off even then. "I am fully aware,' he said, "that arias should be embellished. That's what they are for. But not to leave a note of them even in the recitatives ! That is too much!"
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Saint-Saens, Musical Memories (), p. 207. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1432723268878 accessed: 8 September, 2024
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Aria from Le Barbier
written by Rossini |
performed by Adelina Patti |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1800's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors |
Originally submitted by Gill on Wed, 27 May 2015 11:41:09 +0100
Approved on Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:07:36 +0100