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February 12, 2012

Adelina Patti

Italian-American singer Adelina Patti–the greatest soprano of her day–was charmed into endorsing Zaharoff's sleeping cars during visits to St Louis in the 1880s. Retiring to South Wales, she subsequently spent 40 years converting her home there into a Gothic castle, and married her Swedish masseur. Listening to a recording of her own singing for the first time, the diva exclaimed: "Ah! My God! Now I understand why I am Patti! Yes, what a voice!"

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