The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-13

tion, and twice, still more winningly with
the head-dress for which she IS Denol0en TO
nature. Iu 1865 Mile, Patti es'ayed, for The
h,'' IN Doniyettts sov n AgIinSs di Chsmouui.J In
the previous winter all Paris had been In
ecstacles with ahis latest assumption of their
fayorite,s: and as, three years before, Paris had
nnanimousiy endorsed the opinion Of London
about the merits of Mile. Patti, IL was agreeable
now to find London IN its turn endorsing the
fresh Character in 1855. In 1866, as Cdterind,
In 'L'Etoille du Nord she presents US with
musical Cdterind equal to that OF Nine. Bosio
(the original in London), and a dramatic
Odferind superior to that of Nine. Boslo; while
her Annend, the cobbers wife, in the some-
what trivial 'Crispino la Comare' Of the bro
the;s Rcci, added yet another TO her long list OF
always be. wildly rememb bered, If only for the
dance at the end of Act II, executed with such
engaging grace and quietude to the accompant-
ment of a series of brilliant vocal passages,
tour de force that would have gone far to keep
even feeber production than this same opera
on its legs. About the Jutiet in the Italian ver-
sion of Al. Gounoi's Romeo Giulietta,' the one
character added to Mad'lle PATHS list 10 1867,
enough has been recently said TO absolve US
from the necessity of doing more than repeat
that it exhibits her genius and talent in their
ripe maturity, and is one of the most remark
able exhibitions OF the modern lyric drama. A
more ideal embodiment, indeed, of one of our
great dramatist's most poetic creations could
not easily be imagined.
In Jne season just eAplTeu HOJ blHgle new
character has been assigned to Mad'lle Patti,
although we were promised Etuird Il PurianlO,
GQdd ('Rigoletto), and the unknown Gioudn1la
0'Arco; but happily there is always something
fresh and new in her delineations of parts, how
ever familiar. Her career has been as honor
ably industrious as it has been uniformly sue
cessful. Richly endowed she has not the less
perseveringly studied TO attain the perfection of
detail Indispensable to true art: and the defects
Observable when she first appeared among us
have with laborious and re5olute striving been
conquered one by one. Her voice has grown
richer and more flexible through constant use -
proof that its use has been legitimate; her
vocalzation is as fluent and correct as 1t is bril-
liant and expressive. As an actress, both in the
comic and serious range of characters, she has
reached that acme of perfection which makes
acting seem no acting at all, but rather truth
idealized. Nothing can be more natural, grace
tul, and spontaneous than her comedy, nothing
more deeply felt and touching than her tragedy.
In short, she now presents to us the very beau
ideal of lyric artist
''Mad'lle Patti was born at Madrid, April O.,
1S43, and IS therefore in her twenty-sIXth year.
Her pareuts, both Italian, and both exercising
the same profession as herself, lett Europe when
she was scarcely a year old, and her first sue
cesses were obtained in America, North and
South, where she was already famous befora she
came 10 England. 1t has been Justly said that
while Europe has sent many famous dramatic
singers to America, in sending us Adelina Patti
the New World has amply paid off its debt to the
Old Should We lose her now we shall lose that
which the Italian lyric can i'll spare"