Luisa Tettrazzini whose death is! reported from Milan had as glorious place was well enough assured to have made jealousy needless, Tetrazzini was essentially, a singer} Jot grand opera—Verdi for prefer-fence. She never attempted wagner, fand now that time has smoothed out old rivalries and enables us to see things in proper proportion, one feels she did wisely. She understood how to get every ounce of emotion from Verdi and certainly no one ever wrote more dramatic music than he did. Tetrazzini was neither beautiful nor of imposing figure. But she had a vivid personality and this matchless} voice, and what can one ask more. She is said to have made £ 1,000,000 by her singing, which with the money to be of from gramophone records may very well be true.
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