- Performer Name:
- Sgricci; Taddei
- Performance Venue:
- Performance Date:
- Author:
- Starke, Mariana
- Date Written:
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- Travels in Europe between the Years 1824 and 1828
- Article Title:
- Page Numbers:
- 1:330-331
- Additional Info:
- Publisher:
- Murray
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1828
Text:
[330] [A report on the sumptuous entertainments planned on the occasion of the Emperor of Austria's visit to Rome] … in short nothing was wanted, but the presence of Rosa Taddei and Sgricci in the Arcadian hall, to add, by the [331] wonderful notes of their incomparable lyres, to the various enchantments of the evening*.
* […] Rosa Taddei (called, in Arcadia, Licora Parthenopia) is a celebrated Improvvisatrice and Sig. Tommaso Sgricci’s powers, as an Improvvisatore, are such that, on being given the most difficult subject for a tragedy which his audience can suggest, he never fails, after considering about ten minutes, to speak, on the given subject, a tragic drama, divided into five acts, so well constructed, and so beautiful with respect to versification and sentiments, that it is scarcely possible for those who listen not to think him inspired.
Notes:
- Collected by:
- AE