Articles on the arrival of new singer Maria Cortes

“During the summer it was thought that we were to be almost without music this winter, but unexpected and unheralded recruits constantly make their appearance—a French company, Carlotta Patti, and now Doria Maria Corets, a young Spanish lady, who is said to have won the admiration and enthusiasm of the great Rossini, and to have received the compliments of Duprez and many other competent critics on her superb voice. She proposes giving a series of concerts here in a short time, when all will have an opportunity of judging whether the fame she brings is well founded.”

“There is now on the ocean, on her way to this city, a new vocalist, who intends, under the management of Dr. Dudley, to give a series of concerts here. The lady in question is Maria Cortes by name. She is twenty years old, a graduate of the Conservatory in Madrid, and has also studied under Rossini at Paris. The great composer called her ‘the new Alboni;’ and Duprez, the tenor, also speaks very highly of her vocal ability. Of course she is utterly unknown here; but if she have merit, it will be speedily acknowledged and appreciated.”