Isabel Burton,
Arabia, Egypt, India - A Narrative of Travel
(1879)
“ I always think of a prima donna at Trieste, with regard to the public. We import our operas from Milan two years before they appear in London. "We have an excellent Opera house and three theatres, always full, and the Triestines are so severe and so critical that artistes become extremely nervous; they know if they can pass Trieste they may sing anywhere. ”
