The sun., 1919-09-28
PATTI Is DEAD IN
HER CASTLE HOME
Most Famous of All Prima
Donnas Was in Seventy
seventh Year.
REARED IN N. Y. CITY
Daughter Of italian Singer
Won Highest Laurels in
This Country.
REARED IN N. Y. CITY


LONDON, Sept. 26.-Mme.j Adelina
Patti. the famous prima donna, died
to-day at her castle Craig-y-No Brecon-
shire, South Wales. She was rs years
old.
Nine. Patti had been suffering for
some time with heart trouble. and her
condition recently had necessitated the
attendance of several SPECIALISTS.
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be buried in Parts, but ewing to the
railroad strike It has been impossible
thus far to make definite arrangements.
Adele Juana Maria Patti was born in
Madrid February 10, 1s43. Her father
was Salvatore Patti, an Italian singer
and manager, and her mother, also an
opera singer, Caterina Barili. While
Adele, or Adelina, as she was soon
called, was still an infant the family
came to this country and to New York,
where Salvatore was manager for time
OF the italian opera at Palmo's Opera
House in New Chambers street
+ Nine. PATHS first instructions were
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for years she was taught chiefly by Maui
rice Strakosch, who became the hus-
band of her elder sister, Amalia, also a
singer. Adelina sang in a concert in
1850, under the direction of Max Ma
retzsk. From the age of 3 until IL she
sang frequently, but she was then re-
tired to private life in order that she
might prepare properly for an operate
career
She made her debut in Lucia" at the
old Academy of Music, in Irving place, on
November "a, 1859, and the connoisseurs
of that time at once realized that a new
lyric star had appeared. She was heard
in several other of the lighter and more
fiorh roles, and then she went to Eng
land, where she made her first appear
ance at the Royal Italian Opera on May
II. 1861. as Anlind in "La Sonnambula."
She sang in the same season Lucia,
Martha, Viole.ta. Zerlind and Rosind,
and her fame in Great Britain dates
from that time.
Her Debut In Paris.
In the autumn of the same year she
was heard first as soloist at the Bir-
mingham festival and for many years
afterward she was in demand at one or
another of these English musical func-
lish cities were followed by visit to the
Continent. Her Parisian debut was at
the Theatre Italien on November 10,
1862. Her success was just as great in
France as in England.
She had, however, already been heard
in st. Petersburg and Brussels with an
Italian company under M~elll She sang
at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels
from January 10 till March in a series
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Don Pasquale," Don Giovanni" la
File du Regiment and -La-- Traviata."
Between the Russian capital and the
Belgian she sang in Berlin. Everywhere
the story was the same. She was ac-
claimed the greatest light soprano OF
the time. and one of the greatest ever
heard.
The further history of Nine. PATHS
career in the opera houses OF Europe
would be a mere catalogue OF dates and
names. Her activities throughout the
Continent continued to be associated with
the roles suitable to a lyric voice which
had great facility in colorature. She
appeared as a star at all the notable
opera houses, and her appearances were
most frequently associated with special
occasions. as in 1889. when she sang
Juliotto in Paris In an elaborate revival
of Gounod's Romeo ct Juliette." When
place was taken by Emma Eames, who
made her operate debut. -...
Her Married Ldfe.
Nine PATHS married life was diversi-
fed. She was married on July 20. 1868,
to Henri Marquis de Caux, an equerry
Of Napoleon III. He separated from her
in 1877 and obtained divorce in 1855.
Nine. Patti in the following year became
the wife of Ernesto, ~Nicolini, a tenor.
with whom she had often sung. She was
heard with him in several seasons in this
country, the last time at the Metro
politan in 1892 in the Nile scene of
Aida" He died in 1898, and II 1899
Mric. Patti accepted the hand OK the
Baron Cederstrom, a Swede, who was
considerably younger than herself.
During the successive seasons in which
Patti was spreading enthusiasm through
Europe she thought little or nothing OF
the country in which she had made her
operatic debut with the assistance OF
the once idolized tenor. Brignoll In
1884,, however. she returned to, these
shores for a concert tour. Her brilliant
style and luscious voice won for her
tremendous success, and when she
played directly at the musical gallery by
singing Home, Sweet Home" with an
accompaniment of visible tears, the coun-
try rose at her.
In that year Col. James Henry Maple
son, who was impresarlo of opera at the
Academy of Music, was having a hard
struggle. Provost, his sensational high
c tenor, proved to have nothing but that
c. while Mile Vachot, right from the
Grand Opera with the sacred kiss OF
Gounod on her brow, was sweetly
stupid Marguerite The Colonel
promptly engaged Nine. Patti for the
following season. Her salary at this
time was $4,000 a night
Her temperance in opera set this