Camilla Urso Concert: 3rd
Event Information
Venue(s):
Niblo's Concert Saloon
Price: $1; $1.50 reserved
Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
3 June 2012
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
27 Feb 1865, EveningProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
5)
“Mme. Varian has a voice of clear timbre, pure, penetrating; she possesses excellent technique; she has, in a word, everything necessary to make a make a most distinguished concert singer, but . . . Why do I have a ‘but?’ There is one, nevertheless. Mme. Varian doesn’t have enough confidence in elegance, and seeks too much the effects of power. She invariably attains her goal in the first, and lacks it no less surely in the second. There is in a woman—artiste or simply woman—more allure in delicacy than in violence, and I ought to say, Mme. Varian, so graceful when she sings a romance or a sentimental piece, becomes stiff and painful when she comes to big dramatic noises. In other respects, she is one of the elegances of our concerts, and I can only congratulate Mlle. Urso for having furnished us this too rare occasion to applaud her.”