1906 Adelina " PATTI RECORD " HOME SWEET HOME 78 rpm

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Victor PATTI RECORD

 

The greatest of all singers, ADELINA PATTI, in one of her rare recordings made at her Welsh Castle

BISHOPS Home Sweet Home w Landon Ronald Piano

This recording is considered by Patti Lovers as her best recording, since she maintains an even beautiful voice  throughout the piece

 

Condition: EXCELLENT MINUS, scuffs, short light greying at start for 2 mm does not affect her singing

 

Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 - September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century.

Considered, along with fellow contemporaries; Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, to be one of the most famous 19th Century sopranos; Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard.

Biography
Patti was born Adela Juana Maria Patti, the last child of Caterina Barili-Patti (d. 1870) and Salvatore Patti (1800–1869), Italian parents working in Madrid, Spain. Her father was Sicilian and so Patti was born a subject of the King of the Two Sicilies. She later carried a French passport, as her two first husbands were French. Like many great singers, she came from a singing family. Both her parents, tenor Salvatore Patti and soprano Caterina Barilli, were singers. Her sisters Amalia and Carlotta Patti were also singers. In her childhood the family moved to New York City: Patti grew up in The Bronx, where her family's home is still standing. Patti sang professionally from childhood, and developed into a coloratura soprano. It is believed that Patti learned much of her singing technique from her brother in law Maurice Strakosch, although later in life Patti, like many famous singers, claimed that she was entirely self-taught.

[edit] Development
Adelina Patti made her operatic début, in the title rôle of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, at the Academy of Music, New York, at age 16 in 1859.

Portrait by Franz Winterhalter (1862)In 1861, at the age of eighteen, she was invited to Covent Garden, to take the soprano rôle of Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula. She had such success that she bought a house in Clapham and, using London as a base, went on to conquer the continent, performing Amina in Paris and Vienna in subsequent years with equal éclat.

In 1862 she sang Bishop's Home, Sweet Home at the White House for Abraham and Mary Lincoln, who were mourning for their son Willie, who had died of typhoid. The Lincolns were moved to tears and requested an encore. This song would became associated with Adelina Patti and she performed it many times as an encore by popular request.

Patti's career was success after success. She sang in the United States, all over Europe, including very much Russia and in South America, inspiring popular frenzy and critical raves wherever she went. Her girlish good looks made her an appealing stage presence. In her prime she reportedly had a beautiful soprano voice of birdlike purity, and she excelled in both soubrette roles like Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Rosina in Barber of Seville and famous coloratura parts like Lucia di Lammermoor and La Sonnambula, as well as lyric roles in Gounod's Faust and Romeo et Juliette.

Patti was known as a somewhat unadventurous singer, whose concert programs invariably consisted of the same old tunes, especially "Home Sweet Home", sung to adoring audiences. However, she was an effective actress in lyric rôles that called for deep emotions, like Gilda in Rigoletto, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Semiramide, and Violetta in La Traviata. As her voice matured, she took on heavier parts in operas like L'Africaine, Les Huguenots, and Aïda. Overall, though perhaps unadventurous and old-fashioned, (she sang no Verismo parts at all) her repertoire was quite large and varied.

It is said that, when she performed an aria from The Barber of Seville in front of its composer, Gioacchino Rossini, adding her own embellishments, Rossini applauded with the words, "That was wonderful - who wrote it?"

[edit] Financial success
What made Patti great was not just her voice, but her shrewd business acumen. In her prime, she demanded to be paid $5000 a night, in gold, before the performance. No money, no Patti. Her contracts stipulated that her name be top-billed and larger than any other name in the cast. Her contracts also said that while she was "free to attend all rehearsals, she was not obligated to attend any." The famous impresario, "Colonel" Mapleson in his memoirs recalls Patti's stubborn personality and sharp business sense. She reportedly had a parrot whom she had trained to shriek, "CASH! CASH!" whenever Mapleson walked in the room. But she could get away with it because she filled the houses. Patti was a winning investment.

Patti caricatured by the French artist André Gill (1840-1885).Although Patti ruthlessly squeezed every last dollar that she could from impresarios, she was known to be generous to the less fortunate and it was said that no one wrote Patti asking for help without getting some.

It was unfortunate that like many sopranos Patti did not know when to stop. Her last tour to the United States, in 1903, was a critical and personal failure. From then on she restricted herself to the occasional concert here or there, or to private performances at the little theater she built in her home at Craig-y-Nos.

Patti made a few phonograph recordings when she was in her 60s, at which time by all accounts her voice was past her prime but still impressive. They show a lively singing personality, and a surprisingly strong, developed chest voice and dark timbre, as well as a wonderful trill. Her diction is still excellent, and overall her records have a charm and musicality that give us a hint why at her prime she commanded the $5000 a night. There are differing opinions of to what extent the vibrato heard on some of the selections is Patti's technique or an artifact of the primitive sound recording. Her accompanist for the records, Landon Ronald, wrote: "When the little trumpet gave forth the beautiful tones, she went into ecstasies! She threw kisses into the trumpet and kept on saying, ‘Ah! Mon Dieu! Maintenant je comprends pourquoi je suis Patti! Oh oui! Quelle voix! Quelle artiste! Je comprends tout! [Ah! Goodness me! Now I understand why I am Patti! Oh yes! What a voice! What an artist! I understand everything!] Her enthusiasm was so naïve and genuine that the fact that she was praising her own voice seemed to us all to be right and proper."

[edit] Personal life
Patti's personal life was not as successful as her professional life, although it was not as disastrous as that of many operatic singers. She is thought by some to have had a dalliance with the tenor Mario, who is said to have bragged at Patti's first wedding that he had already "made love to her many times".

Patti married three times: first, in 1868, to Henri de Roger de Cahusac, marquis de Caux (1826-1889). The marriage soon collapsed; both had affairs and de Caux was granted legal separation in 1877 and divorce in 1885. The union was dissolved with bitterness and cost her half her fortune.

She then lived with the tenor Ernesto Nicolini (1834-1898) for many years until, following her divorce from Caux, she was able to marry him in 1886; that marriage lasted until his death and was seemingly happy, but Nicolini cut Patti out of his will, suggesting some tension in the last years.

Patti's last marriage, in 1899, was to Rolf Cederström (1870–1947), a priggish, but handsome, Swedish baron many years her junior, who severely curtailed Patti's social life. He cut down her domestic staff from forty to eighteen but gave her the devotion and flattery she needed. He became Patti's sole legatee and, some time later, married a woman, this time much younger than he. Their only daughter—still alive when Mr Cone published his book, see below—thus became Adelina Patti's sole heir.

Patti had no children, but was close to her nieces and nephews. It is noteworthy that her great-grand niece and namesake is the Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Patti LuPone.

In her retirement, Adelina Patti, baroness Cederström, settled in the Swansea valley in south Wales, where she purchased Craig-y-Nos Castle. There she had her own private theatre, with the stage built sloping backwards, so that she would always appear taller than those behind her. She made some of her recordings at Craig-y-Nos. She also funded the substantial station building at Craig y Nos/Penwyllt on the Neath and Brecon Railway[1]. In 1918, she presented the Winter Garden building from her Craig-y-Nos estate to the city of Swansea. It was re-erected and renamed the Patti Pavilion. She died at Craig-y-Nos and eight months later was buried near her father at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

 

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My grading should give you a good idea how the record you receive will look like.

Surface VISUAL GRADING:

EXCELLENT - clean and shiny, as new. E minus is the same, with some scuffing.

Very Good Plus - Clean, with a little more scuffing. Some grooves spots may have some light greying. Little if any distortion.

Very Good - a clean copy, some scuffing, some greying on some grooves or a few small groove bands. Enjoyable record, maybe light distortion on some top notes.

=> Everything up to here is a great and enjoyable record

Very Good Minus - May have areas of visible wear, may have  scuffing or dulled surface. Still a great record, but ticks, pops and some distortion.

Good Plus - a worn and scuffed copy. May have other defects separately stated. Plays well, but with noise, may require filtering.

All other defects (if any: Chips, cracks, scratches, lamination cracks, label damage, needle digs) will be stated SEPARATELY. "BUT" means that they are significant. "Faint" usually does not sound.

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Number of Records
 ( Edison Diamond Discs count as TWO RECORDS)

Media Mail US

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Up to 2 Records

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Up to 5 Records (2 DD)

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