PATTI

Carlotta (dau. of Salvator Patti, singer, d. 21 Aug. 1869). b. Florence 30 Oct. 1835; first appeared as a concert singer at Academy of music, New York 1861; toured in North America with Max Strakosch’s concert party 1862; came to London 22 March 1863; sang at Covent Garden theatre and Crystal palace 16 April and 9 May 1863; sang in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany 1863–9; sang the Queen of the night in Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte and other parts with Strakosch’s company in New York 1869; sang in Ro ini’s Barber of Seville and in Don Pasquale at Buenos Ayres 1870; sang with Mario in the United States 1872, and at the London Philharmonic, and other concerts from 1872; had a soprano voice extending from C below the clef to G sharp in alt.; retired 1879; m. 3 Sept. 1879 Ernest de Munck, solo violoncellist to the grand duke of Saxe Weimar; she d. from cancer at her house, Rue Pierre-Charron, Paris 27 June 1889. London sketch book Nov. 1874 pp. 1–2 portrait ; Illust. news of the world xi 221 (1862) portrait ; Illust. sporting news iv 441 (1865) portrait , v 529 (1866) portrait ; Illust. times 13 June 1863 p. 405 portrait .