Article on Adelina Patti’s new American contract

Event Information

Venue(s):

Manager / Director:
Max Strakosch

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 August 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Sep 1869

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Adelina Patti

Citations

1)
Article: New York Sun, 13 September 1869, 2.

“The Gazette Musicale, a Paris paper that pretends to authority on questions of music, affirms that it has positive knowledge that Adelina Patti (Marquise de Caux) has entered into a written agreement with Strakosch to come to the United States on the 1st of September, 1871, and to give during the ensuing eight months one hundred representations, for each of which she is to receive 10,000 francs in gold, Strakosch also paying the expenses of the trip, and depositing with the Messrs. Rothschild 500,000 francs as security that he will carry out his part of the contract.

“The Gazette says that with this series of performances Patti’s career as a singer will absolutely end, and that she will thereafter reside in Paris as the Marquise, and no longer as the Diva.”