Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-27
Woman Who Thrilled World
With Her Music Passes
Away in Wales.
BREADWINNER AT Z;
LEAVES MILLIONS
Voice and Beauty Brought Fame and
Fortune and Numerous Offers Of
Marriage - Became Greatest Star
From Box-O Office Standpoint-Had
Lived in Retirement in Castle in
South Wales With Third Husband.


died this morning at Craig-y-Nos cas-
tie at Penycae, South Wales.
Nine. Adelina Patti reigned for forty
years as queen Of singers.
Her marvellous voice thrilled the
contemporaries of her day. The elder
Dumas, the French dramatist, once
said to her:
Being man and a Christian,
love to listen to your singing; but If l
were a bird l would die OF envy"
She had tones 80 beautiful" said
one eminent musical critic, that they
seemed to gush spontaneously from
the very fountain spring OF vocal
youth"
Nine. Patti inherited her talent.
u am child of the stage" she has
said, being born during an operatic
season at Madrid, Spain, in 1s43. My
father, Salvatore Patti, a Sicilian, was
a good tenor singer. My mother, a
Roman, became a famous artist as
Signora Barili, the name of her first
husband" ~
Bread Winner at 7.
Dwindling finances sent the Patti
family to New York when Adelina.
whose birth name was Adela Juana
Maria Patti, was baby. When she
was years old, her parents suddenly
became destitute.
'In the emergency" the singer said,
my mother considered that l had ex-s
traordinary vocal talent, and hit upon
the idea Of bringing me out in concert.
And so s sang ana soon won bread fo-
the family" sts@
The child made her debut at Tripler
hall, in New York. singing arias from
the Barber" in 1850. She was the
juvenile prodigy Of the day. and near
ly ruined her voice by overwork. She
appeared again at the age of 13. After
tour thru the West Indies, she
withdrew to prepare for a greater ca
reer.
At the age Of fe she appeared In the
Academy of Music, New York, in her
first opera role, Lucia di Lammer-
moor" Her wonderful soprano reused
the audience to the widest enthusiasm.
and her fame swept the country. AT
this time she was earning 800 week.
/, She repeated her conquest as Amina
in La Sonnambula" in Covent Garden,
London, in 1861. Her salary had in
creased to $3.50 month.
Much courted.
It was the beginning OF dazzling
conquest of all Europe. Royalty en-
tertained her and courted her favors.'
The populace besieged her hotels and
theaters. Men in all stations OF lie
wooed her, but she brushed them aside
with a laugh and trill.r She finally
capitulated at the age OF 20 to Henri,
MARQUIS de Caux, equerry to Napoleon
III. They separated after few years,
Nine. Patti finally securing divorce
IN 1885 to marry Signor Ernesto Ntc-
olini, an italian tenofNsinger.
Her first American tour began In
1ss1-her last in 1908. She was greet
ed by magnificent ovation when she
made her first appearance In opera IN
the New York Academy Of Music, the
scene of her girlish triumph Of twenty
wears before. She was at the height
of her career and became the musical
sensation of the winter. The following
wear she sang at the newly opened
Metropolitan Opera House. Her guar
anteed salary was $4,000 highland
it was paid, for Nine. Patti invariably
refused to appear until the money was
in her possession.
Record Box Office Star.
Nine. Patti held the recordFas = box
office star in operatic circles When
she appeared at matinee concert Ia
hall in Boston In 1888, she
faced an audience which had paid
$4,000 to hear her. During single
tour thru South America she re-
ceiyed in salary and bonuses more than
5000. 900, 1t has been estimated that
she earned more than $5,0O0,000 dur
ing her singing career.
She made her final professional ap-
at the age Of 65 in London.
Her last days were passed in Wales at
her beautiful castle, "Crais-y-Noa
with her third husband. Baron Of
Cederstrom, whom she married In
1899, q year after the death Of Nico-
lini
Nine. Patti Is reputed to have left
an estate valued at moro than
10000
She was the first operate. singer In
the world to he made Il cheyal!er of
the Legion Of Honor. She was dec
Grated by the>cxar Of Russia with the
order Of merit, and was appointed by
him as ''first singer Of the court"
potentates We'd with each
other IN showering her with Jewels,
and social distinctions. al
WILSON FEELING BETTER.
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