Bellini, donizetti, and composers of their school, sometimes did little more than hand over to the singer engaged to create their works a rough sketch, as it were, which the artists were supposed to fill in and perfect.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
Who that saw Edgar von Rohritz-his mother had bestowed upon him his melodramatic name in a fit of enthusiasm for Walter Scott and donizetti,-who that saw him to-day could believe that in his youth, under a thin disguise of aristocratic nonchalance, he was far more sentimentally inclined than his former comrade Leskjewitsch?
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
There was scarcely an opera or an overture, from Mozart to donizetti, that he did not insist upon singing a scene from; and wound up all by a very pathetic lamentation over English insensibility to music, which he in great part attributed to our having only one opera, which he kindly informed me was "Bob et Joan."
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)