I. Adelina Maria Clorinda

Adelina Maria Clorinda, an operatic singer, born in Madrid, April 9, 1843. Both her father and mother were professional singers, and from birth she was surrounded with musical influences, receiving much of her instruction in the art from Barili, her half brother, and Maurice Strakosch, husband of her elder sister Amelia, who was also distinguished as a singer. In 1844 the Patti family removed to New York, where Adelina sang in concerts when she was eight years old, and on Nov. 24, 1859, made her debut as prima donna at the academy of music, in the character of Lucia di Lammermoor. Her success was immediate, and her brilliant future correctly predicted. On May 14, 1861, she made her first appearance in London in Bellini's Sonnambula; and on Nov. 16, 1862, she appeared in the same opera at Paris. Her success was no less in Europe than in America, and her engagements at London and Paris were followed by others at the principal capitals, where, especially in Russia, her popularity has been almost unrivalled. Besides a voice of exceptional beauty, range, and flexibility, she possesses rare powers as an actress.

Though too small of stature adequately to personate the great characters of the highest style of tragic opera, her preeminence in parts requiring pathos and sentiment, such as Donizetti's Lucia and Gounod's Marguerite, or archness and coquetry, such as Mozart's Zerlina or Rossini's Rosina, is indisputable. On July 29, 1868, she was married in London to the marquis de Caux, a French nobleman.

II. Carlotta

Carlotta, sister of the preceding, born in Florence in 1840. She possesses a soprano voice extending to G sharp in alto, and her facility of vocalization is as remarkable as her range of voice. Owing to a slight lameness, she has confined herself almost entirely to concert singing, though she has occasionally appeared in opera, in such parts as that of the Queen of Night in Mozart's " Magic Flute," with great success.