Excerpt from Queens of Song, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists Who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, From the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time
That success was awaiting her reappearance in Italy. She created a marked sensation when she made her début afresh in Venice in 1819. At Rome, inapril of that year, she performed men's parts at the Argen tina, with Tacchinardi, in such operas as Rossini's Aureliano in Palmira, Mayer's Danae, Nicolini's Cesare nclle Gallic, and in 1820 she appeared at Milan and Trieste. In the autumn of 1821 she was engaged at the Theatre Italien of Paris, where she fixed the atten tion of the fastidious French public; but it was at Verona, during the Congress of 1822, that she oh tained her great success. She then returned to Paris, reappearing at the Italiens, March 30, in the Opera of Romeo c Giulietta, and was received with the homage paid only to the highest talent.
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