Adelaide Phillipps
by Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston (9781458802811)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. From Madrid she visited Barcelona and various cities in Spain with the opera company, returning to Paris in the spring of 1862. She was at once re-engaged by Merilli for an extended professional tour through the north of France, Belgium, visiting also Holland, Poland, and other parts of Europe. She was the star of the company. Everything seemed to favor her, and she enjoyed the whole journey, not only its professional success, but she felt a vivid interest in the countries she visited. Her quick eye caught all their beauty, and she appreciated the history of the great past which was associated with many of the places through which she passed. The old cities of France welcomed her; at Lille so great was hersuccess that the press of the city presented her with a laurel wreath at her benefit. Near one of these cities the leading members of the troupe were invited to visit a family residing in a neighboring chateau or castle, of which Adelaide gave, on her return home, a graphic description. The building was very old and picturesque, with a tower which had stood a siege. " I never understood," said she, " of any place what people meant when they said it was like being in a play, until I looked out of my window on this old tower, with its moat and surroundings. The family, who must have been of rank, were charming and hospitable. They seemed to live much of their time in this chateau, but were great patrons of the opera when any troupe visited the place, and often invited the leading artists to their house." This was a very pleasant incident in the tour. When performing in one of the cities ofPoland she was much impressed by the fact that all the ladies present at the opera wore black dresses as mourning for their country In Poland she visited a saltmine, one of the n...

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