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Article: Adelina Patti: Queen of Hearts.
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- September 1, 1995
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Nineteen ninety-three, the year John Frederick Cone's Adelina Patti appeared, was the 150th anniversary of the singer's birth. Such was Patti's fame that the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s were known as "The Age of Patti." She was the darling of royalty, including Queen Victoria, her son Edward VII, Napoleon III, and Czar Alexander II. Perhaps more important, she was given the imprimatur of composers whose music she sang, figures such as Gioacchino Rossini, D. F. E. Auber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Hector Berlioz, and Giuseppi Verdi, the last of whom adored her voice and artistry. Even her fellow sopranos Jenny Lind, Emma Eames, Minnie Hauk, and Frances Alda praised her; the young ...