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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 34: (search)
r highness explained that she was fond of fancy balls, and had been painted often after going to one. From the villa we returned to the hotel where a tenor singer wanted General Grant to patronize his concert. The General did not think this worth his while, and then the tenor spitefully exclaimed that General Grant might as well go to his concert as to the house of a former prima donna. The Princess was indeed an American girl who had come to Italy to study for the opera; she had sung at La Scala and San Carlo, and pleased the fancy of the Prince, who married her. But she could not go to court, nor be recognized at St. Petersburg. This was why she lived in Italy. This accounted for the portraits of Lucrezia and Semiramide. There was no harm done; the Princess was married; but she had kept back her story when she invited Mrs. Grant. Her companion had an engagement at the time at the Neapolitan opera. Nevertheless the villa was beautiful, the lake was Italian, and the Princess wa
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Miss Hayes, the "Irish Nightingale." (search)
increasing years grew ambition, and she determined to try her powers in a wider field, where success is surer and fame more brilliant and lasting. She accordingly went to Paris, where she placed herself under the tuition of the celebrated Spanish teacher, Garoia, and afterwards proceeded to Milan, where she became the pupil of Renconi. Her debut in opera was made at Marseilles, in the "Huguenots, " in the year 1845. She was immediately afterwards engaged at the celebrated theatre of La Scala, in Milan, where she gathered laurels from the most discriminating musical audience in the world, winning universal admiration by the simplicity and naturalness of her manner and the purity of her voice. The season of 1846 she passed at Vienna, and after having made the tour of the principal cities of Italy, made her first appearance in London in 1849. Two years later she left Europe for the United States, and arrived in the fall of 1851, making her first appearance in New York in a concer