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PATTI, ADELINA JUAKA MARIA [BARONESS CEDERSTROM] (1843- ) , the famous vocalist, daughter of an See also:Italian See also:singer, Salvatore Patti, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 19th of See also:February 1843. Her See also:mother, also a singer, was See also:Spanish, being known before her See also:marriage as Signora See also:Barili. Both the parents of Adelina went to See also:America, where their daughter was taught singing by See also:Maurice Strakosch, who married Amelia Patti, an See also:elder See also:sister. Gifted with a brilliant See also:soprano See also:voice, Adelina Patti began her public career at the See also:age of seven in the See also:concert halls of New See also:York, where in 1859 she also made her first See also:appearance as See also:Lucia in See also:Donizetti's See also:opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. On the 14th of May 1861 she sang as Amina in See also:Bellini's opera La Sonnambula at Covent See also:Garden, and from this See also:time she became the leading operatic prima donna, her appearances in See also:London, See also:Paris and the other See also:principal musical centres being a See also:long See also:succession of triumphs, and her roles covering all the See also:great parts in Italian opera. In 1868 she married See also:Henri, See also:marquis de Caux, a member of See also:Napoleon III.'s See also:household, from whom she was divorced in 1885; she then married Nicolini, the See also:tenor, who died in 1898; and in 1899 she became the wife of See also:Baron Cederstrom, a Swede, who was naturalized as an Englishman. Madame Patti ceased to appear on the operatic See also:stage in public after the 'eighties, but at See also:Craig-y-Nos, her See also:castle in See also:Wales, she built a private See also:theatre, and her occasional appearances at concerts at the See also:Albert See also:Hall continued to attract enthusiastic audiences, her singing of "See also:Home, Sweet Home " becoming peculiarly associated with those events. Partly owing to her See also:fine See also:original training, partly to her splendid method and partly to her avoidance of Wagnerian roles, Madame Patti wonderfully preserved the freshness of her voice, and she will be remembered as, after Jenny See also:Lind, the greatest soprano of the 19th See also:century.

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