Julian Marshall, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
“ It is strange that no fine portrait should exist of so great a singer and so handsome a man: the only ones known are an oval by Jügel, after Mouron, representing him as Trajano, and a woodcut, in which he appears as Tebaldo. ”
Julian Marshall, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
“ Tofts and her rival were the chief contributors, the former playing successively the chief parts in Arsinoe,' 'Camilla,' 'Rosamond,' 'Thomyris,' and 'Love's Triumph.' 'Mrs. Tofts, [3] who took her first grounds of musick here in her own country, before the Italian taste had so highly prevailed, was then not an adept in it; yet whatever defect the fashionably skilful might find in her manner, she had, in the general sense of her spectators, charms that few of the most learned singers ever arrive at. ”
Julian Marshall, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
“ He returned to Italy, and died in the early part of February, 1861, at the age of eighty. Velluti was a man of kind and benevolent disposition, and equally gentlemanly feeling and deportment: his private habits were of the most simple and inoffensive kind. In society, his apparent melancholy gave way to a lively and almost playful exuberance of good humour, and he never failed to interest. ”
