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"Louis Viardot's visit to the Garcias in London was, therefore, more in the nature of a business visit than anything else. The opera season at the Théâtre Italien opened in October, and he wished to see for himself if the London critics' praise of Pauline's performances was justified. He found that she amply fulfilled his expectations, and promptly engaged her for the coming season in Paris."
— Oct 02, 2020 11:27AM
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"The Berlin audience was suitably impressed, and indeed wanted her to repeat her double performance every day. Pauline refused, less because of the strain on herself than from fear of offending the singer who usually took the part of Isabella." (2)
— Oct 26, 2020 03:00AM
reveurdart
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"In Robert le Diable she performed a feat which has become legendary: she took two parts on the same evening. The performance was in jeopardy because of the illness of the singer taking the part of Isabella; Pauline, who was singing the part of Alice, decided to take both parts herself, which was possible because both characters never appear on the stage at the same time." (1)
— Oct 26, 2020 03:00AM
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Pauline and Turgenev met for the first time in November 1843.
— Oct 11, 2020 09:48AM
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"Pauline listened to their singing with fascination; the Russian gypsies' music was half-familiar to her, and conjured up memories of her father and the Spanish gypsy music which he had taught her, and which she had later heard in Spain. When the performance was over, she was asked to sing herself, and gladly agreed. The gypsies crowded round the piano, and listened with silent and rapt attention."
— Oct 08, 2020 04:08AM
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"...to arrive in Russia during one of the most stimulating periods in her history, during that ‘marvellous decade' when, in spite of Nicholas I’s oppressive régime, a group of very young men were laying the foundations for Russian liberal intellectual thought, and when the sudden, startling, and gorgeous phenomenon of Russian literature was about to burst upon the world." (chapter 8)
— Oct 07, 2020 03:35PM
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"The Viardots left Nohant on 10th September, and ten days later Pauline was able to announce to George the great news that a splendid contract for the coming season had been signed—a contract with the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg."
— Oct 07, 2020 03:33PM
reveurdart
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"He even went so far as to say that he would not allow any of his operas to be performed there unless she was engaged to appear in them. Meyerbeer was a very formidable ally; his operas had a phenomenal success in Paris, and he was in a position to dictate his terms to the management of the Opéra. Six years later he was to prove that he had not made an idle promise to Pauline, his ‘little Consuelo'..."
— Oct 07, 2020 03:32PM
reveurdart
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"From Vienna the Viardots went to Prague, where Pauline sang Il Barbiere on three days running, and left on the fourth. She received an ovation... Prague was of great interest to Pauline; her prototype, Consuelo, had already visited the city in George's novel, and it was in Prague that the opera which Pauline admired above all others—Don Giovanni—had been performed for the first time."
— Oct 07, 2020 03:30PM
reveurdart
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"From Vienna the Viardots went to Prague, where Pauline sang Il Barbiere on three days running, and left on the fourth. She received an ovation... Prague was of great interest to Pauline; her prototype, Consuelo, had already visited the city in George's novel, and it was in Prague that the opera which Pauline admired above all others—Don Giovanni—had been performed for the first time."
— Oct 07, 2020 03:30PM
