Florentine lady, Vittoria Archilei. Embryo opera of Cavalieri.
Peri's "Eurydice." Euterpe. Marthe le Rochois and Lully's operas.
Rival queens in London. Steele, in "Tattler." Second pair of rivals,
Cuzzoni and Faustina. Master Handel. Germany's earliest queen of
song. Frederick the Great and German singers. Mrs. Billington. Haydn
and Sir Joshua Reynold's St. Cecilia. Mozart's operas introduced
into England. Catalani. Pasta. Sontag. Schröder-Devrient and
Goethe's "Erl King." Malibran a dazzling Meteor. Another daughter of
Manuel del Popolo Garcia. Marchesi, Grisi and Mario. Manuel Garcia
and the Swedish Nightingale. Other Swedish songstresses. Patti.
Queens of song pass in review. Two Wagner interpreters. A Valkyrie's
horse. A word for American girls.