Wilhelm Ganz in Her Majesty's Theatre - 1850
from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, page 16:
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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Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 16. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435927129543 accessed: 30 January, 2025
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Anna Bolena
written by Gaetano Donizetti |
performed by Giuditta Pasta |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1850 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by sp327 on Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:38:49 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:31:56 +0000