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"In 1828 Sontag was secretly married to Count Carlo Rossi of Sardinia, whose diplomatic career as ambassador to The Hague was jeopardized by the marriage until a patent of nobility was bestowed on her by the King of Prussia. After the marriage was publicly acknowledged in 1830, she yielded to pressure from her husband’s colleagues and renounced the stage. For 19 years she appeared only rarely in private and charity concerts. In 1849, however, political upheaval in Sardinia ended both her husband’s diplomatic career and Sontag’s retirement. She accepted a six-month contract to sing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, and then toured Great Britain and France. In 1850 she created the role of Miranda in Fromental Halévy’s La tempesta in London, and, after a triumphal tour of Germany, she went in 1852 to the United States. She made her last appearance, as Lucrezia Borgia in the Gaetano Donizetti opera, during a tour of Mexico, where she succumbed to cholera during an epidemic. " From Britanica entry

 

Referred to in 18530107LEW_FMS. LEW talks of wanting to hear MAdam Sontag, and describes an article she read about Sontag and Alboni in Putnam's Monthly. (link to article below)

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=putn;cc=putn;rgn=full%20text;idno=putn0001-1;didno=putn0001-1;view=image;seq=00123;node=putn0001-1%3A1

 

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"In 1828 Sontag was secretly married to Count Carlo Rossi of Sardinia, whose diplomatic career as ambassador to The Hague was jeopardized by the marriage until a patent of nobility was bestowed on her by the King of Prussia. After the marriage was publicly acknowledged in 1830, she yielded to pressure from her husband’s colleagues and renounced the stage. For 19 years she appeared only rarely in private and charity concerts. In 1849, however, political upheaval in Sardinia ended both her husband’s diplomatic career and Sontag’s retirement. She accepted a six-month contract to sing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, and then toured Great Britain and France. In 1850 she created the role of Miranda in Fromental Halévy’s La tempesta in London, and, after a triumphal tour of Germany, she went in 1852 to the United States. She made her last appearance, as Lucrezia Borgia in the Gaetano Donizetti opera, during a tour of Mexico, where she succumbed to cholera during an epidemic. " From Britanica entry

 

Referred to in 18530107LEW_FMS. LEW talks of wanting to hear MAdam Sontag, and describes an article she read about Sontag and Alboni in Putnam's Monthly. (link to article below)

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=putn;cc=pu...

 

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