Wilhelm Ganz in Her Majesty's Theatre - 1849
from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, page 10:
After the Jenny Lind fever there arose another star in the operatic firmament, namely, Henrietta Sontag. She had married a Sardinian nobleman, Count Rossi, and left the stage; but, when misfortune overtook her husband through political affairs, she returned to the opera and came out as Linda di Chamounix at Her Majesty's in 1849. She was no longer in her first youth, and, coming directly after Jenny Lind, her success at first was not great; but afterwards she appeared as Rosina in Il Barbiere and carried everything by storm. In the duet "Dunque io son" with Signor Belletti, and in … more >>
Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 10. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435915981952 accessed: 11 December, 2024
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The Barber of Seville
written by Rossini |
performed by Henrietta Sontag |
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Date/Time | 1849 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |