Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-29
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St Paul Pioneer Press The death Of
Campauml the celebrated romantic tenor
win probably break no tender young hearts
TO-DAY, But there was n time when the mat
inee girl would have shed real tears over
his demise and would have tied her bon
bon box with black ribbons.
Philadelphia Record; lalo Campauni
one OF the greatest tcuols the world has
ever heard. has UasUcl away, lie was the
great lyric hero until the star of Jean de
Rcs2kc passed his in the Cu!mination Of a
new artistic era. With his remarkable rep
crtoirc OF eighty roles Campaniui may
Justly be styled tho most notable Italian
tenor ever produced by the Land of Song.
His death has ended highly romantic
life. full of picturesque YicisSituay8 wander
ings and triumphs
Brooklyn Eagle: His prime was twenty
years ago. Then his voice was mntchloss In
its purity ana beauty Of tone and his method
admirable In its facility, certainty and cN-
preston His earlier appearances I'm opera
won voCiforOus appreciation on two cuntl-
nCntS, and the great money gains possible
in America kept him in this country during
the best years of his life. Tie was hard
and ready student in spite of his seeming
carclcssncss. for he had acquired rcpcr-
tory Of eighty operas, and could sing any
one of them at few hours notice.
New York Sun: Campanni. who died In
Parma on Monday, was the last Of the great
tenors. His death makes a break in this
line and no one can say when it will be
made good again. Voices that ring with
the genuine tenor quality come from Italy,
and Campanni was an italian, strong In
musical Intelligence, high In cultivation,
and endowed with n throat resonant of the
true note. Whoever can rCcoloCt having
heard him is lucky, for leaving out Patti,
about the only great voice left to n great
singer on the oporatc stage, as we know
II Is that of N1Ounrl de RCSZke,
Kansas City Star: When his voice began
to fail he purchased a little estate among
the vineyards near Parma. The home of
Maestro Verdi, in whose operas he had 50
often sung was not more than twenty
miles away While the dispatches do not
say as much. it is presumed that he died
as he had expressed a desire, at home. II
was two years or more ago that Cam
panini said: "a singers chief ambition is
never attained until in old age he rounds
out his life in the land Of his birth. | want
to do that some day. when the time for
singing is over" The time came; Cam
panui is dead, and at Parma.
New York Mail and Express: Campanmi
is dead, Others have long since taken the
place that once was his without a chal-
lenge, yet to the grand opera amateur the
news of his final passing must come almost
as a personal bereavement. II causes us
to forget for moment the newer and more
splendid glores of the metropolitan; the
faces of our later favorites fade even as
our eyes are turned toward them, and the
music of today is heard as in dream. And
in their places there rise the figures and the
scenes of nights long gone, when the world
was fairer, perhaps, and enthusiasm still
had its keener edge. II is not very many
years, but time flies fast with the singer
and a decade often serves to bring greatest
fame to the verge OF oblivion. Campanini
was great, and the world owed him much.