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<p><br><br><P>A major project begun in 1973 reaches its conclusion with the publication of volumes 15 and 16 of the Biographical Dictionary, a series considered a reference work of the first order by Theatre and Performing Arts Collections.</P><P>Among performers highlighted in these last volumes is Catherine Tofts, a gifted singer whose popular acclaim was captured in lines by Samuel Phillips: How are we pleas’d when beauteous Tofts appears, / To steal our Souls through our attentive Ears?’ / Ravish’d we listen to th’ inchanting Song, / And catch the falling Accents from her Tongue. The first singer of English birth to master the form of Italian opera, Tofts frequently won leading roles over native Italian singers. Her salary—£400 to £500 a season—was one of the highest in the theatre. Her popularity declined, however, as her demands for payment increased—a situation captured in an epigram Alexander Pope may have penned: So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, / As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along; / But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, / That the beasts must have starved,
- Author
- Highfill, Philip H., Jr. 1918-2014.,
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, [1973-1993]
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809315260
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Literary Fiction
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