Carlotta Patti

Carlotta Patti ( born October 30, 1835 in Florence, † June 27, 1889 in Paris) was an Italian soprano.

Carlotta Patti was the daughter of opera singer and director Salvatore Patti and the singer Caterina Barili. She was a piano student of Henri Herz, before she completed a vocal training. Since she was unable to walk due to an accident in her childhood, she avoided the opera stage and performed almost exclusively as a concert singer. She debuted in 1861 with a concert at the Academy of Music in New York. In the same year the impresario Bernard Ullman took with her a successful concert tour of North America.

After another concert tours she made her debut in 1863 in England with a concert at the Covent Garden Opera in London; followed by et al appearances in Paris and Vienna. 1869, she returned to America and was with roles such as the aria of the Queen of the Night from Mozart's Magic Flute, the attraction in Max Strakosch Open Company. 1871, held in Valparaiso several concerts for the benefit of the French victims of the Franco-German War.

1872 Patti gave a gala concert with the London Philharmonic Society. 1879 married his Belgian cellist Ernest de Munck, the principal cellist in the court orchestra of the Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach was. After she retired from the concert stage and worked in Paris as a singing teacher.

Besides the famous Adelina Patti and her other siblings were active as a musician: Amelia Patti also as a singer, Carlo Patti as violinist and conductor.