Carlotta Patti [SEP] voice type
Carlotta Patti
Carlotta Patti (c. 1840 – 27 June 1889) was a nineteenth-century operatic soprano and sister to famed soprano Adelina Patti. Various sources list her birth year as 1835, 1840, and 1842. Born into a musical family, Patti studied the piano in her youth before following her younger sister's inclination toward singing. As a child, Carlotta developed a handicap which caused a noticeable limp in her walk. Due to this condition she mostly avoided operatic performances and preferred to sing on the concert stage.
Stigelli, and then reappeared for Stigelli's Farewell on January 11 singing "Stradella" in full and Act 4 of "La Juive." Formes made a great impression with the "Star-spangled banner", 'with a flag of the Union in one hand, and with a voice and air that thrilled with lofty patriotism, and found an echo in every heart present...' Formes and Carlotta Patti sang in Stigelli's Boston Farewell on 28 January.
Later career.
In 1863, in London, Formes