cantatrice

• “One engages in play with an infamous gamester, and is stripped perhaps in the very first partie: another is pillaged by an antiquated cantatrice; a third is bubbled by a knavish antiquarian; and a fourth is laid under contribution by a dealer in pictures.”

  Travels through France and Italy

• “He was painfully surprised upon reaching Stockholm by water not to be greeted by the squadrons with volleys of artillery, as was once done in honor of a famous cantatrice.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

• “He is set in motion by a ballet-dancer, a cantatrice, an actress; in short, he is a brigand-captain, with other brigands under him.”

  Balzac

• “No effect whatever could be made were a cantatrice to follow implicitly the written notes of this opera, such being merely a rough sketch, as it were, of the composer's ideas, which the singer is supposed to complete.”

  Style in Singing

• “But Cannon travelling with Myra, sharing artistic triumphs with her, escorting her to entertainments given in her honour, Cannon, in fact, associated in foreign minds with the beautiful cantatrice, offended the inviolable rights of his lover's vanity.”

  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

• “The wretched serf of Pobereze became a celebrated Italian cantatrice.”

  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850

• “During the performances she was at one moment pale and trembling, tears rushing into her eyes; at another, she was ready to throw herself at the feet of the cantatrice, in an ecstacy of admiration.”

  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850

• “You have lost no time," said the cantatrice, endeavoring to conceal her feelings under an iron mask of reproach.”

  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850

• “She is "queen at _bals-parés_," and she has married "a rich old lord," but nothing in either condition predicates the successful cantatrice.”

  Browning's Heroines

• “The appearance of the fair cantatrice was the signal for such a reception as only a Parisian audience can give, and the first strains that issued from her lips assured them that their applause was not misplaced.”

  Edmond Dantès

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