Article on tenor Francesco Mazzoleni’s Paris debut

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29 June 2018

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08 Jun 1868

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Participants:  Francesco Mazzoleni

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Article: Courrier des États-Unis, 08 June 1868.

Describes tenor Francesco Mazzoleni’s disastrous debut at the Paris Opéra—which resulted in the cancellation of his contract, after the Administration of the Imperial Academy of Music had spent 38,000 francs to train him (presumably in French diction and opera roles). Nothing was good—his appearance, voice, diction. . . “He knows nothing and can do nothing.”