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ectobiology-machines · 8 months
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Forgive me if this is weird, but Nepeta and Bec?
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Name: Sparky
Title: The Sparkledog One
Ecto-components: Nepeta Leijon, Becquerel
Glitter fucking everywhere
Can smell you
Some would call her "the weakest link"
(It's Prof. Prof said that.)
Wait is she changing
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homestuck--edits · 9 months
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Howdy!! I was wondering if we could get our little funky intersex dual-self icon of rage but as caliborns hater pose from game over, with their god tier outfit and little bat bow tie.
If the scepter could be the battlespork of zilly wit but with the land of tents and mirth inside that would be amazing but I understand if that a bit much.
(Love your work and your spirit, sending healing ghosts ;>> )
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thelegend2t · 1 year
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Name: Mittens Leijon
Title: The Cool One
Ecto-components: Nepeta Leijon, Die
Carries a Big Bore Winchester
Cat burglar 
Likes hunting chickens
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yippeeism · 1 year
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Nonne calcitrare me?? Bene certa. Fine. Omnia quae cacas feci. Ego stupri eum servo odio habui et singulos dies relinquere volui. Ad litteram eram tantum efficax modus pro mensibus, et omnes me oderunt stupri ad officium meum faciendum. Odi cultorem tam stupri valde. Ego etiam homines stupri alts habent, sed me reprehendere potes cum in tantum confabulationes cum nulla consectaria in transmedio errans homines invenerunt? Servus caballi erat et hodie me homines mingentem ad me adepto cum turbatus sum ut me deciperent. Habere fun cum servo tuo, sed verisimile est incendere in flammas non quod ego non sum solus mod cum spina stupri. Et yeah mentitus sum. Quis assis facis amplius. Populus litteram accipit alapam in carpi ad erroris. Impetus personales accepi omnes temporis fucking sed certus fui irrationalis et biased mod. EGO iustus volo ut paululum etiam cum omnibus stercore qui servo me misit per.
lol cum
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parisholiday-blog · 3 years
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Collar brings back coffee brewing ritual
New Post has been published on https://ohparis.com/what-to-do-in-paris/447/collar-brings-back-coffee-brewing-ritual/
Collar brings back coffee brewing ritual
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ectobio · 1 month
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Congrats on getting to one year with your fellas
-Mod Eration
A thank you, road to 411 2025 baby!!
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ectobiology-machines · 2 months
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Name: Chad Strider
Title: The Basic One
Ecto-components: Dave Strider OR Dirk Strider
Ironically very basic
Not on purpose
Lives on a diet of coffee and pizza
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sircecep · 3 months
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RevelRush: Final Mission.
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by Cedric Ceptsovern.
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Story: The beginning.
Berawal dari naksir dan melirik OA keren dengan username RevelRush di kolom sebuah menfess pencarian OA. Cecep awalnya ragu untuk maju dan pdkt RevelRush, karena saat itu OA-nya udah rame, ditambah lagi Cecep baru melakukan pdkt ketika RevelRush udah sampai di jadwal CT reveal. Betul, Cecep melewatkan concept reveal serta web reveal, Cecep nggak pdkt dari awal. Tapi, semakin ke bawah stalk OA tersebut, Cecep makin naksir karena melihat bagaimana dedikasi para Coaches untuk diving mention dan nggak convo-kill sama sekali. Mereka semua ramah. Akhirnya, Cecep memberanikan diri dan nekat tetep pdkt ke RevelRush, meski tinggal mengikuti jadwal games dan juga grand opening. Cecep berusaha sekuat tenaga terus menerus melakukan banyak convo dan aktif mengikuti semua jadwal yang tersisa agar dilirik oleh para Coaches.
Singkat cerita, hari verifikasi pun tiba. Cecep yang melihat notifikasi pengumuman verif pun gak berani menyimak thread tersebut karena udah pesimis gak akan keverif. Sampai akhirnya ketika gif verifan didrop oleh Coaches.
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“I’m officially become a RevelRush Racer.”
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Story: Cecep, a proud Speedster.
Setelah verifan, tugas pertama Cecep dan Racers lainnya adalah membuat greeting untuk saling bonding. Di sini, Cecep merasa senang sekali karena semua Racers pada ramah dan baik sama Cecep. Gak ada yang convo-kill. Selanjutnya, ada game pertama yang dihost oleh Lyto. Di situ, gamenya cukup toxic karena main rebut-rebutan member yang bawa poin, sehingga Cecep banyak dikambing hitamkan oleh Lyto. Tertekan, tapi di situ Cecep bisa merasakan kebersamaan yang erat. Padahal baru beberapa hari, tapi kita semua udah punya hubungan yang seperti keluarga. Semuanya terasa dekat dengan Cecep.
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Game demi game, event demi event, weekly schedule demi weekly schedule pun berlalu. Cecep menikmati semua acara yang diadakan oleh RevelRush. Baik yang sederhana maupun yang toxic, semuanya menyenangkan untuk diikuti, karena Speedsters semua pada ambis dan rewel banget! Persaingannya sehat dan menyenangkan antar sesama Speedsters.
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Cecep juga mendapatkan kesempatan untuk menjadi mod game di salah satu weekly schedule RevelRush. Di situ Cecep merasakan kegembiraan serta kepeningan karena baru kerasa banget kerewelan dan keambisan Speedster pas ngemod game ini. Cecep mimpi indah setelah mod game!
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Cecep juga berhasil mendapatkan posisi atas di weekly leaderboard RevelRush, pada minggu ke-3 dan 5. Cecep membuat orang tua bangga! Ah, meskipun gak masuk leaderboard di minggu ke 1, 2, dan 4, tapi Cecep tetap menikmati semua events dan games, karena semuanya beneran ambis. Kelompok Cecep selalu semangat dan memberikan yang terbaik untuk ambis, gak ada yang afk tanpa kabar. Keren banget gak sih, Speedster? Bangga banget sama semuanya!
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RevelRush memang singkat, tapi waktu yang singkat ini benar-benar semuanya berkesan buat Cecep, gak ada yang nggak. Dari Coaches sampai Speedsters, semuanya bikin Cecep bahagia dan bangga bisa menjadi bagian dari kalian. RevelRush is one of the best home I’ve ever been, indeed. Cecep sangat berterima kasih kepada Coaches karena udah membuat Cecep bisa merasakan kebahagiaan dan kehangatan di sebuah OA lagi. Terima kasih udah verif Cecep!
“Thank you for making this amazing home, Giana, Lyto, Bento.”
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ghanaseven · 1 year
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unfathomably niche, painfully unfunny, and strangely political post warning:
i notice a strange but apt parallel between the relationships between the republican and democratic parties, and the creators of tech and magic minecraft mods - both live in this sort of ecosystem maintained by some official rules, but mostly an unwritten set of norms, but one group (republican/tech mods) is far more willing to ignore those for their own benefit, whether it's pushing and pulling on supreme court justices or making machines that instantly ore double for a sum total of like 10 iron and 5 redstone. meanwhile, the democrats/magic mod makers are still *trying* to make progress, but their unwavering commitment to the unspoken rules of decorum/democracy/balance/game feel leads to their often better ideas being overshadowed because they don't break the eggs necessary to get it in people's minds - nobody's talking about economic inequality when we have to argue whether to genocide or not to genocide trans people every other week, and nobody's going to try your (honestly, revolutionary) spell weaving multiblock structure made from witch hair and ender essence when you get the same results from building the "ore-erator" from kevincraft and slapping the lowest tier windmill on it. so in conclusion democrats should call the gop nazis more and makers of magic mods for minecraft should just start making the most broken shit imaginable
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babyawacs · 2 years
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@thenatlinterest (!) @KremlinRussia_E must analyse the superiori ty of western arms, and decide if these willalways pierce through lo ng frontlines and break all that suppliesoflong frontlines need. t he conclusion will decide if they general mobilise. foremost: west ha snot even begun todeliver arms the question if there can be a vic tory is (!)rightnow this. they didstart a fragile operation and befo re ensured therewillbe peace after the conquest: this point was rec ent summer and it did not occur, @ukraine prepared this counter offen sive instead. geopolitically the formation of empire succumb op press states to, is an idiocy initself. thereis 0sympathy forthat wh o wants that whowants to follow that why. the realign along a mod erated @chinese global dominance strategy will hurt russian ego but i t may be less war as result I am Christian KISS BabyAWACS – R aw Independent Sophistication #THINKTANK + #INTEL #HELLHOLE #BLOG ht tps://www.BabyAWACS.com/ [email protected] PHONE / FAX +493212 611 34 64 Helpful? Pay. Support. Donnate. paypal.me/ChristianKiss
@thenatlinterest (!) @KremlinRussia_E must analyse the superiori ty of western arms, and decide if these willalways pierce through lo ng frontlines and break all that suppliesoflong frontlines need. t he conclusion will decide if they general mobilise. foremost: west ha snot even begun todeliver arms the question if there can be a vic tory is (!)rightnow this. they didstart a fragile operation and befo re ensured therewillbe peace after the conquest: this point was rec ent summer and it did not occur, @ukraine prepared this counter offen sive instead. geopolitically the formation of empire succumb op press states to, is an idiocy initself. thereis 0sympathy forthat wh o wants that whowants to follow that why. the realign along a mod erated @chinese global dominance strategy will hurt russian ego but i t may be less war as result I am Christian KISS BabyAWACS – R aw Independent Sophistication #THINKTANK + #INTEL #HELLHOLE #BLOG ht tps://www.BabyAWACS.com/ [email protected] PHONE / FAX +493212 611 34 64 Helpful? Pay. Support. Donnate. paypal.me/ChristianKiss
@thenatlinterest (!) @KremlinRussia_E must analyse the superiority of western arms, and decide if these willalways pierce through long frontlines and break all that suppliesoflong frontlines need. the conclusion will decide if they general mobilise. foremost: west hasnot even begun todeliver arms the question if there can be a victory is (!)rightnow this. they didstart a fragile operation and…
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ectobiology-machines · 4 months
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jade and roxy
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Name: Anne Lalarly
Title: The Fox One
Ecto-components: Jade Harley, Roxy Lalonde
"No they aren't dog ears"
Fox fellow
"No I will not move my tail out of the way"
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themishmoshbird · 2 years
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don't you love that in this day and age, we can say the word "mod" and it can mean three distinctly different things depending on the context? ie mod-ification, mod-erator, mod-ule
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scuteimagines · 5 years
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lloyds-department · 2 years
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[graba you] explain the fruit-human-tech complications mod-erator has
Ok so. Mod is a very complex being. Half human, half mango, and then. some minor technological factors are shoved in. I explain in depth under the cut.
So, Mod doesn't have regular blood to start us off. Since they're half mango, he actually has some mango juice mixed in which causes complications I'll discuss later on in this post.
Mod has some of the same organ failures Admin does. Not because it was genetic, but because of how the human parts of Admin interacted with the unique DNA set Mango has. Mod has artificial organs because of the frequent close calls
Mod does not have real eyes. She has camera eyes, like Admin does. This is because their fucking eyes dissolved when he was two years old. That, additionally, is because of the acidity surrounding the eye sockets [thanks fruit genes] so Mod has fake eyes.
Now back to Mod's blood. It freezes. 32°F. It freezes, baby. Wintertime is a nightmare. So, in the next drawings of Mod until. Mid-March, he will be showcased in actual shirts/sweatshirts/etc. because she needs to stay nice and warm.
Mod also has one lung. It's like. one humongous lung it works as well as two lungs but it is one singular lung. Doctors believe Mod was almost a twin, then he absorbed the twin, and the lungs formed into one super lung, but that is not confirmed. Yeah.
That's it. The basic stuff.
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opera-ghosts · 3 years
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Adelina Patti's voice was one of moderate power, but great range and of wonderful flexibility. Her production was faultless, and she was, and is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest mistresses of vocalization of the century. As an actress, she could not com- pare with many other singers, and her greatest successes were gained in such operas as made the least demand upon the histrionic capabilities of the performer. Her repertoire included about thirty operas, mostly of the Italian school, though she also sang in the operas of Meyerbeer and Gounod, and others. She was one of the many " Carmens ; " but while her interpretation vocally was excellent, she was by no means equal dramatically to Mile. Hauk, and much less so to Calv6, the latest and by far the greatest interpreter of that role. One of the most notable events of Madame Patti's career occurred when, in 1868, at the funeral of Rossini, the com- poser, she sang with Madame Alboni the beautiful duet, " Quis est Homo," from Ros- sini's " Stabat Mater." On that occasion such an assembly of noted musicians and singers was gathered together to honor the great composer as probably never before met under the same roof. To hear that beautiful music, rendered by two such artists over the grave of the composer, was to feel in the truest sense the genius of Rossini, and the part that he played in the music of the nineteenth century.
The name of Patti has always been asso- ciated with high prices, and not without cause ; for, although other singers have received larger sums for isolated engagements, none have ever succeeded in maintaining such a uniformly high rate.
When she returned to America in 1881, after an absence of some twenty years, Patti held mistaken notions about the American people, and her early concerts were a bitter disappointment. High prices and hackneyed songs did not suit the public, and in order to make a success of the tour Madame Patti was obliged to throw over her French manager, and employ an American (Henry E. Abbey) who knew the public, and who immediately cut the prices down to one-half. Eventually the season was suc- cessful, both artistically and financially, her voice showing but little sign of wear, and her execution being as brilliant as ever. At Brooklyn the people took the horses out of her carriage, and dragged her home, one facetious writer remarking that he saw no reason for taking away her horses, and sub- stituting asses. The following clever rhyme, at the expense of her manager, taken from " Puck,' r voices the opinion of the public very neatly, in regard to Patti's tour, in 1881-2: Patti cake, Patti cake, Franchi man ! " So I do, messieurs, comme vite as I can." " Roulez et tournez et marquez ' with care,' Et posez au publique a ten dollars a chair."
Farinelli is said to have made $30,000 per annum, a very large sum for the times in which he lived. Catalani's profits ran almost to $100,000 a season. Malibran re- ceived $95,000 for eighty-five performances at La Scala. Jenny Lind, for ninety-five concerts, under Barnum's management, re- ceived $208,675, all good figures. But Rubini is said to have made $11,500 at one concert, and Tamagno is the highest-priced tenor of the present day.
Patti at one time made a contract for a series of performances at $4,400 a night, and later on her fee was $5,000 a night, paid in advance, but when she came to Boston in 1882, and sang in three performances given in a week, her share of the receipts was $20,895. The attendance at the Saturday matinee was 9,142 people, and her share of the receipts for that performance alone was $8,395.
Madame Patti always had the advantage of excellent management. Until her mar- riage with the Marquis de Caux she was under the management of her brother-in-law, Mau- rice Strakosch, and so assiduous was he in his protection of his young star from unnec- essary wear and tear that he became the subject of many jokes. It is said that he occasionally took her place at rehearsals, that when visitors called on her they saw him instead, and some people, with vivid imagination, declared that Strakosch sat for Patti' s photograph, and that he once offered to receive a declaration of love for her.
One is apt to doubt the necessity of all this management, for Patti seems to have been admirably adapted for self-defence, and even for aggression in financial matters. An amusing anecdote is told of her by Max Maretzek, who, one day, when she was a small child, in a moment of generosity prom- ised her a doll, or, as some accounts have it, some bon-bons as a reward for singing in a concert. It was to be her very first appear- ance. Patti did not forget the promise, and when it was nearly time for her to sing she asked for her doll. Maretzek had forgotten it, and promised that she should have it after the concert, or the next day. But no, she must have it first, or she would not go on and sing. The poor man was in despair. It was late and stores were all closed, but by some means he succeeded in getting the bribe, whether dolls or bon-bons, and, rushing back in breathless haste, he handed it to her. Then she became cheerful at once, and giving it to her mother to be taken care of, she went on and performed her part in the concert.
One of the most amusing of these anec- dotes was told by Colonel Mapleson, the well-known impresario, who says that no one ever approached Madame Patti in the art of obtaining from a manager the great- est possible sum that he could contrive by any possibility to pay. In 1882, owing to the competition of Henry Abbey, the Ameri- can impresario, Mapleson was obliged to raise Patti's salary from $1,000 per night to $4,000, and, finally, to $5,000 per night, a sum previously unheard-of in the annals of opera. The price, moreover, was to be paid at two o'clock of the day on which Patti was to sing.
On the second night of the engagement at Boston, Madame Patti was billed to sing in "Traviata." Expenses had been heavy and the funds were low, so that when Signor Franchi, Patti's agent, called at the theatre promptly at two o'clock, only $4,000 could be scraped together. Signor Franchi was indignant, and declared that the contract was broken, and that Madame Patti would not sing. He refused to take the $4,000, and went off to report the matter to the prima donna. At four o'clock, Signer Franchi returned to the theatre, and con- gratulated Colonel Mapleson on his facility for managing Madame Patti, saying that she would do for the colonel that which she would do for no other impresario. In short, Patti would take the $4,000 and dress for her part, all except her shoes. She would arrive at the theatre at the reg- ular time, and when the remaining paltry $1,000 was forthcoming she would put on her shoes and be ready to go on the stage.
Everything happened as Patti had prom- ised. She arrived at the theatre costumed as Violetta, but minus her shoes. Franchi called at the box-office, but only $800 was on hand. The genial Signer took the money and returned to Patti' s room. He soon ap- peared again to say that Madame Patti was all ready except one shoe, which she could not put on until the remaining $200 was paid. It was already time for the perform- ance to begin, but people were still coming in, and after some slight delay Signor Franchi was able to go in triumph to Madame Patti with the balance of the amount. Patti put on her other shoe and proceeded to the stage. She made her entrance at the proper time, her face radiant with smiles, and no one in the audience had any idea of the stirring events which had just taken place.
In later years, when Madame Patti in- vested some of her fortune in the beautiful castle at Craig-y-Nos, in Wales, the people employed to put the place into repair, know- ing of her reputed wealth and extravagance, sent in enormous bills. But Madame Patti was not to be imposed upon, and the result was that the amounts melted down consider- ably under the gentle influence of the law. The unkindest cut of all was, however, when a Belgian gentleman, who had amused him- self at Craig-y-Nos, who had fished, shot, and been entertained, but who always managed to be present during discussions on business, sent in a bill of ,3,000 for his services as agent.
Under the management of Colonel Maple- son, Patti travelled in most luxurious style. She had a special car which is said to have cost $65,000, and a whole retinue of ser- vants. At Cheyenne, the legislature and assembly adjourned and chartered a special car to meet the operatic train. A military band was at the station, and nearly the whole population turned out to witness the arrival. Tickets to the opera were ten dollars each, and there was an audience of 3,000 people.
California seems to have been considered doubtful territory, for Patti left the question undecided as to whether she would go so far. When she did arrive it was merely as a vis- itor, but her delight with the "heavenly place " was so great that she declared she must sing there. The necessary delay in- curred by sending to Chicago for numerous trunks containing her wardrobe, gave suffi- cient time for the excitement in San Fran- cisco to work up to fever heat. Tickets sold at unheard-of prices, and more or less damage to property was done in the scramble.
Adelina Patti made her first matrimonial venture in 1868, when she was united to the Marquis de Caux, an event which did not interfere with her operatic career, for she filled an engagement of six weeks at Paris, and then went on to St. Petersburg, where the town opened a subscription which amounted to 100,000 rubles, and presented her with a diamond necklace.
In 1885 Madame Patti obtained a divorce from the Marquis de Caux, from whom she had separated in 1877, and the following year married Ernest Nicolini, the tenor singer. Nicolini was a man of fine stage presence, and, for a time, after the retire- ment of Mario, was considered the best tenor on the stage. His voice was of mod- erate power and of pleasing quality, but his tremolo was, to say the least, extensive. For some years Madame Patti declined every engagement in which Nicolini was not included, until the public indignation found vent in many protests. Signer Nicolini seems to have been a devoted and admiring husband, and to have entered heartily into the pleasures of the luxurious life of Craig-y-Nos. He died in January, 1898.
After some years of retirement from the operatic stage, during which she sang only in concerts, Patti made a reappearance at Covent Garden in 1895, and showed that her voice, notwithstanding nearly forty years of use, was wonderfully well preserved. Nev- ertheless it was a disappointment to those who had heard her in her prime. As a reason for its preservation she says that she never sings when she is tired, and never strains for high notes. Sir Morell Macken- zie, the great throat specialist, said that she had the most wonderful throat he ever saw. It was the only one in which the vocal cords were in absolutely perfect condition after many years of use. They were not strained, warped, or roughened in the slight- est degree, but absolutely perfect, and there was no reason why they should not remain so for ten or even twenty years longer. It was by her voice alone that she charmed and delighted her audiences, and she will doubt- less be recorded as the possessor of the most perfect voice of the nineteenth century. She witnessed the rise of many rivals, but none ever equalled her in popularity, though many excelled her in dramatic powers. Lucca, Sembrich, Nilsson, were all greater as ac- tresses, but of all the rivals of her prime only Sembrich and Albani remain, and sev- eral years must elapse before their careers will equal the length of Patti's.
Probably no other singer has succeeded in amassing so great a fortune as Madame Patti. Her earnings enabled her to purchase, in 1878, the beautiful estate in Wales, which she remodelled to suit her own ideas. Here she has lived in regal style and entertained lavishly many of the most noted people of the civilized world.
Her wealth is by no means confined to real estate, for she has a rare collection of jewels, said to be the largest and most bril- liant owned by any of the modern actresses and opera singers. One of her gowns, worn in the third act of " La Traviata," was cov- ered with precious stones to the value of $500,000.
Madame Patti's most popular r61es were Juliet and Aida, and though she created no new parts of importance, she has amply fulfilled the traditional role of prima donna in matters of caprice and exaction, and has even created some new precedents. In 1898 she was still before the public, singing in concerts in London and elsewhere.
via Famous singers of to-day and yesterday by Lahee, Henry Charles, 1856-1953.
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