This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...least, Trebelli-Bettini. At the opening of the operatic season this year (1829) a new tenor, named Bordogni, who had for several previous years held the first position at "Les Italiens," Paris, made his appearance in this country. The opera selected for the occasion was La Gazza Ladra; but although he was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...least, Trebelli-Bettini. At the opening of the operatic season this year (1829) a new tenor, named Bordogni, who had for several previous years held the first position at "Les Italiens," Paris, made his appearance in this country. The opera selected for the occasion was La Gazza Ladra; but although he was unquestionably an elegant singer and a master of his art, he failed to make any impression, chiefly from want of power. The area of the King's Theatre was too large for his diminished force; yet, taking him for all in all, I very much doubt whether I ever heard a more finished or accomplished artiste. During the season of this year, Mdme. Malibran was once more presented to the public, for the first time since her departure in 1825 with her father and the rest of her family to America. She made her rentree as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello, and at once "took the town by storm." Report had spoken very favourably of her reception during the previous year in Paris; but no one anticipated that her voice would have attained the fulness or power which it now manifested. She was immediately accepted as the legitimate successor of Pasta, although pronounced off-hand to be inferior. to her great predecessor in pathos and discrimination, both in acting and singing, and in the former particularly. Yet she was a more natural representative of the forlorn and helpless Venetian bride, except when--as she was always somewhat prone to do--she gave way to exaggeration, in order to intensify the situation of the scene, in which more than ordinary prominence seemed to her to be required.f In spite, however, of this fault, and the severe animadversions that were passed upon her because of it, Malibran at once established herself as a popular favourite, and ...
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