2-791-665 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

M. Salvi, 1844. Portrait of Italian operatic tenor Lorenzo Salvi. 'Never, perhaps, was the room of the Philharmonic Concert more densely or critically crowded....Paginini (in the person of Sivori), and the purest and most impassioned tenor of our day (Salvi), were quite enough to excite the enthusiasm which appeared on the occasion...Of the tenor of Salvi's singing there are scarcely any adequate terms to describe its beauty. He possesses a voice of extraordinary extent, with the utmost purity and sweetness of tone, whose soul-touching quality, if he were mere sound and nothing else, would reach the heart, and excite it. Added to this, he is the most finished vocalist we have ever listened to, and a dramatic de- claimer of the most energetic and powerful passion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.