Patti, Adelina
(1843–1919)> VOCALIST
Patti, Adelina (19 February 1843, Madrid; 27 September 1919, Craig-y-Nos Castle, Wales), vocalist, was baptized Adela Juana Maria by her parents, who brought her as a child to the United States. She received a musical education, because her father and mother were singers, and she was already endowed with a beautiful voice and a precocious ability to sing when she began to appear in concerts in 1851. She made her debut as a soprano in New York in 1859, and she performed in England for the first…