This was a wonderful biography. I knew the name and face of Adelina Patti, but I had no idea she was such an important figure in the world of opera and beyond. What a great life she lived.

What a beautiful story, this would make a wonderful film.

This video is outstanding! Thanks for uploading it.

What a wonderful video. She was the eternal queen of song. No one has ever matched her voice or earning capacity. She made a huge fortune with her voice and shared it with the less fortunate. She was a genuine queen not only of song but of generosity to her fellow man.

What an amazing documentary. What an amazing woman.

What a delightful and detailed video about this fabulous singer. I love her recordings, which I bought when they were first reproduced on LPs. Although she was singing at the end of an incredibly long and hard working career there is vocally so much still to admire. The dark quality of the sound and the amount of character in the voice always come as a surprise in one who tends to be remembered as a high coloratura soprano. But she was clearly so very much more than that, even singing Aida. And how touching it is that for the second set of recordings, a whole year later, she had clearly worked hard to improve and polish her technique before cutting those discs. Bravissima.

This was lovely, thank you!

Thank you for this dedication to Madame Patti ❤️

@DrivingThroughTime

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing so much of Madame Patti’s discography!

I first heard about Adelina Patti when I read about her in the American Girl book “Welcome To Samantha’s World 1904.” I also watched the program “Adelina Patti Queen of Song” which was a documentary & concert starring June Anderson.

Thank you for this wonderful video.

Wonderful and informative documentary! Thank you for this. It's a great adjunct to the book, "Queen of Hearts" Mr. Cone's wonderful biography of Patti. Highly recommended reading.

Love it What an outstanding informative video❤

Looking at her photos you can see some of the family resemblance to her great great niece, Patti Lupone (another goddess of sing and stage)

It would seem not only was her voice amazing, but she was a master interpreter and very musical as well!

I have two anecdotes about Patti. My Grandmother told me the second, but the first I read it elsewhere printed more than twenty years ago. One refers to a joke she performed in stage on a fellow singer that she disliked: in the middle of a scene, Patti turned her back to the public and facing her fellow singer, she whispered to her, that one of her eyebrows has fallen. The other singer asked which one? and Patti replied signaling the left one, so the other singer took off the right one, and when Patti recover her stage position, the audience laughed at the one eyebrow left. The other anecdote refers to one time when Angela Peralta alternated scenario with Adelina Patti. When Angela waited to perform after Patti, at the end, as Patti left the stage after 3 rounds of applause, she murmured to Peralta ¨This is the way we sing in Italy¨ and she went to her dressing room. Angela Peralta went to scene, and the Patti was waiting to re-enter the stage, she have to wait for 10 times round of applause for Peralta, that as finally going to her dressing room she told Patti: ¨This is how we sing in the Glory¨ I loved your work here. Extraordinary, congratulations.

Basically her husband neglected his wife and then she made it worse by committing adultery and everyone she was with afterwards became guilty of adultery. Outside from her personal problems, she was a true singer and musician who still can teach and encourage aspiring singers about how to sing as well as to avoid her mistakes - both professional and personal.

Lindo documentário❤ 🎉

Probably Gerster rather than Albani was the most fearsome rival of Patti's. Also, Sembrich, one of Patti's protegees, was considered by some as equal to Patti.

Una vida muy interesante la de Adelina, según he leído en su biografía. Suficiente para hacer una gran pelicula.

No nos olvidemos de Nely Melba. Poco se habla de ella y fue una gran soprano australiana. Elena Mitchel era su nombre.

wow 😮

The recordings she made, (as well as other recordings by opera greats at the time), at the end of her career, would be the perfect opportunity to use AI technology for a good purpose. I know her voice was probably not as good then, at the end of her career, but what I hear behind all the scratches and recording impurities, is lovely. What I would give, to have a Time Machine, and recording equipment, to hear the greats of the past!

Incorrect title. Should be: "Adelina Patti, the greatest voice that ever recorded on gramophone"

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Thank you for this lovely biography. Please could you name the singers? I recognised most, but not the Violetta

@broadwaygodess630

7 ай бұрын

@mstrsims2I’m not sure who that is, but it isn’t Nadine Sierra.

@broadwaygodess630

7 ай бұрын

Upon research, it is Aleksandra Kurzak, a Polish Soprano

Adelina Patti is the great aunt of Patti Lupone.

@4jopattix

Ай бұрын

I don't think so-possibly a distant cousin.

I really like the choice of singer Pretty Yende (at 2m20s) to illustrate the way Patti probably sang when she was a little girl and could barely read!!! A nice voice but under developed and with no proper training. I am sure Patti had a much better voice after proper training, a real Bel Canto voice.

@sanfordpress8943

4 ай бұрын

Whow, that was a put down!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

No. The Greatest Voice That Ever Lived was Zenaida Pally.

“The greatest voice that ever lived”. How can this claim be taken seriously as we have no idea how her voice sounded. Technique of singing has changed over the years and we might find her voice/interpretations strange to our ears. Let’s just be content to celebrate her as the most famous opera singer of her era.

@DrivingThroughTime

6 ай бұрын

“The greatest singer who ever lived” is an historical allusion, referring to Giuseppe Verdi’s praise of Patti. The introduction addresses this quote. And we do in fact have an idea of how Patti’s voice sounded, albeit well past her prime in 1905/06. We should certainly be content celebrating Patti’s well-earned fame, and acknowledging Verdi’s praise, even if it is hyperbolic, is part of that celebration.

@TheVaughan5

6 ай бұрын

@@DrivingThroughTime Appreciate your comments. Unfortunately acoustic recording techniques are in general so far removed from reality that we cannot in all honesty give an accurate appraisal.

@DrivingThroughTime

6 ай бұрын

@@TheVaughan5 that is very poignant, and also a great shame. We are incredibly fortunate to live in a time where so many talented artists can be captured on both film and quality audio.

@4jopattix

Ай бұрын

There were recordings of her at the end of her life and her voice still had incredible range, tone and depth.

@pamelacorbett8774

Ай бұрын

Silly to say she had the best ever singing voice. People have sung since time immemorial, and what do we know of the great voices lost in the mists of time?

Why do you show a black artist when comparing the young Adelina? Subliminal racial superiority here. 2:04

@DrivingThroughTime

Жыл бұрын

Pretty Yende was featured in this documentary because she is a talented singer, and her rendition of Ah! Non Giunge is excellent. Leontyne Pryce is also featured in this documentary in an effort to include accomplished singers of color. Dialogue is encouraged on this channel, but race baiting will not be tolerated.

@CharlotteinWeimar

Жыл бұрын

The singers were chosen for the fine quality of their singing of those particular arias, not because of their appearance, and that is all that matters.

@HenrikKarapetyan

6 ай бұрын

There will always be people looking for racism when it doesn’t exist. I do think these individuals are the real racists who aspire, often subconsciously, to focus on skin pigmentation regardless of content and context of what they are observing.

@sanfordpress8943

4 ай бұрын

Race had nothing to do with it

@MrJazzmeaux

3 ай бұрын

What you are saying makes no sense at all.