Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-01
Parodi


We take great pleasure in copying the follow
ing from the Penns ylyania inquirer:
Two STARS IN THE SAME HEMispHERE.-It is
n curious coincidence. that Teresa Parod the
most unprctenl ling and the leaa enyous of NOR
tale. should be- by n combination of circumsian-
ces. almost always brought into a forced rivalry
with another great star shining ut the same time
ms herself. II is. perhaps, If the public judgment
wanted any such confirmation. as proof that Pa
rod has oil these excellencies as singer and as
mn artist which stand the test Of time, and are
neither more nor less than the attributes Of gent
u.s. Parod, who, in 1851. came after the great
excitement of Jenny Lind. found herself, in Au-
gust, 1855. again placed in jnxta position with
grent public excitement, aud one of the greatest
living artists of the mimic scene. Rachel plays
Mt the Metropolitan, and Parodi sings at Nibos;
there is full house mt the Metropolitan. but
there is a full room at Niblo's--an audience such
rs Jenny Lind and Sontag had alone attracted
Now she is in Boston--as it happens, Rachel is
there too. The Athens Of the United States is
preparing its classic lore, to witness Raohels
impersonations ofthe heroinea of ancient Greece
and Rome but Parodi lures them foIth-she an
nounces a concert, and Rachel, for tho moment
is forgotten: and Tor seven nights Parodi finds
her audiences. not even lessened of one of her
auditors by the tragic queen. All listen, en-.
tranced. to the passionate voice, moulded and
they had not preferred the unknown genius to the
one they love and appreciate 80 well.
Parodi has, thought II must not be forgotten,
n greater right than any other artist to tho sym
pahy and admiratonlof the, Americans She mny
almost no snid to have achieved her fume here,
then corred il back in all its eifulgence TO the
great capitals Of Europe. Paris aud London. both
Of whose Royal Theatres opened their doors to
the Young italian prima donna, who had first
revealed on the Opera stage If the new hemis
phere tho true exeelleneies Of the lyric stage Of
the classic land of 1taly-unitng passion. pa
ibos and power, not only asa singer, but n
great and admirable actress. When Parodi first
came, engaged by Max Maro,zek for tho Astor
Place Opera House she had sung but two sea
sons, one in Italy aud the other in London, she
was young in years. but it seemed as though
Pasta. (her counseller) desirous of immortality,
had infused into herpupil that grandeur, dignity
and self possession which long years had given
To herself hut which, from tho first time she
trod the stage. Teresa Parodi had displayed.
She came not only in the midst of the Jenny
Lind excite,nent, but Immediately after the Gel
ebrated Havana troope, where Bosio. Steffanone
Tcdesco, Saiyi Marn and Badali, had sung all
the summer 10 crowded houses at fifty cents
Fifty cents aud the Aston Place ticket cost 81,
50! Here were two tremendous disadvantages.
Parodi had to contend against the ideal and the
postive-yet people forgot the Havana troupe
and paid nnnurmuringly HE required price to
hear and sec Parodi. Who does not remember
the impression conveyed by her Norma-where
passions in all ages the same, were for the first
time by Parodi invested with The wild depth of the
unntored druidess of the barharic ngesl Then
Lucreta, II woman full of passions and strong as
those of Norma but how different Centuries
had gone by, and Lucrezia, crowned with the
ducnl diadem OF the middle ages nor loved, nor
hated. and did the oak crowned priestess. Ro
meo. the impassioned Romeo, passed too before
US; Giovanni d Nnpoli, creation of the artists
to music composed in America for her,an Italian
Opera composed for an American house by Stra
kosoh--the very Strakosch whose admirable tai
ents and refined taste we can judge at all the
Concerts given in this country by Parodi. Sem
iramde. too. we had, and none have given US here
before or SINCE an idea of the Assyran Queen
or of the elaborate music OF the great Maestro
After enacting all these, to audiences as enthu.
siastio Mt the last performance as the first. Paro
d. in the midst of her triumphs left for Europe
There from the fast,dious and stated public OF
London, and Paris, she again won fresh laurels
the first among the first. But she remembered
the public who had so warmly welcomed her;she
did not wait till time had impaired her power.
and her voice, and bring to the United States, n.
lcnce, but in the very height of her triumphs, in
the day of her youth when time has done all te
improve and nothing to impair, she comes back
TO us smiling and happy and grateful for the pnst
and for the faithful memory that her American
patrons have kept of her.
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