Subasta Bidspirit | ARTOT DESIREE: (1835-1907)

ARTOT DESIREE: (1835-1907) - ARTOT DESIREE: (1835-1907) Belgian Soprano who was briefly engaged to PIotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1868, the composer claiming that Artot was the only woman he ever loved. A.L.S., ` D. Artôt de Padilla ´, four pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to an unknown singer, on attractive printed stationery featuring a small colour image of a bird to the upper left corner, in French. Artôt refers to a singer who stayed at her home and states to her correspondent `...elle me dit qu´elle a chanté ”Faust” avec un très grand succès. ? Est-ce vrai? quant à moi je ne crois pas que sa voix puisse résister aux fatigues du theatre - lorsqu´elle est venu chez moi la voix était complètement cassée, mais lorsque je l´ai refusée son désespoir a été si grand que par pitié j´ai consenti à la faire travailler, ... quoiqu´à mon avis une voix brisé(sic) ne se remet jamais complètement...´ (Translation: ”She tells me that she sang the ”Faust” with great success? Is it true?I don´t think that her voice will resist to the theatre fatigue - when she visited me her voice was completely broken, but when I refused her, her despair was such that I had pity and agreed helping her working with her, ... although in my opinion a broken voice never fully recovers”). Further stating in part `... c´est un petit opéra à 4 personnes, comme ”Don Pasquale” et sans choeurs, par conséquent facile à monter...´ (Translation: ” It is a little opera for 4 persons, like the ”Don Pasquale” and without choirs, therefore easy to stage ...”) G to VG