Rossini, Gioachino

A letter of recommendation for the singer Mademoiselle Fremont, described as a “professora di musica”, who has sung with great success at the Teatro alla Pergola in Florence, having a good technique, agile voice and little acquaintance of theatrical intrigue, unlike a number of mediocre singers that have made operatic careers, and asking him to accord her every courtesy as is his custom (“...La mia protetta è professora di musica, cosa rara ai nostri tempi; ha buon metodo, voce [?insinuante] e scorrevole e non conosce ancora l’intrigo teatrale…”

1 page, 8vo (c.22 x 13.7cm), blue paper, autograph address-panel, Florence, 15 October 1853, some tears with paper-loss, affecting a couple of words, address panel detached, some creasing and browning 

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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The singer recommended here may the Mlle Frémont who created the secondary role of Ismene in Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe, at the Paris Opéra in 1826, or, more likely, a younger relation: See H. Weinstock, Rossini. A Biography (1968), p.443.  For Corticelli, see Lots 141 & 142.