Although Hasse was the husband of the diva they did not live together.
But la diva Faustina was a privileged person; they waited patiently.
The climax of the performance was to be a duet, to be sung by the great Roger and a diva who was past her youth.
A burning candle fell down from the chandelier, and a flame licked the black lace dress of the diva and enveloped her.
Gontram's luck is really extraordinary," said a colleague of the young painter laughingly, as he saw the majestic figure of the diva enter the room.
The grand difficulty in the opening andante movement of Casta Diva lies in its broad, sustained phrasing, in the long, generous undulation of its rhythm, which with most singers drags or gets broken out of symmetry.
Farewell, marquis," said the count, throwing a knowing glance at Aslitta, who held the diva in his arms.
The diva was already dressed for her part, and looked so transcendently beautiful that the maestro held his breath.
As soon as the students heard the shot, they surrounded the carriage of the diva again.
Up till now he had never met La Luciola, but when the diva saw at the Scala that evening the man whom her lover had talked to her about, she was seized with a deep emotion.
Patti at the rate of eight times the imperial salary, giving the diva $4,000 for each concert she sang in, and she sang two in each week.
Adelina Patti is credited with a strange fascination, while in New York, the diva having succumbed to the blandishments of a midget.
The diva surveyed the figure before her, and amusement shone in her eyes.
The diva was not bad-hearted, and so, gently enough, she went over her offer a second time, dwelling upon and explaining its advantages.
It was so easy for Madame Raffoni to pilot the incognitodiva by the railway to the Manhattan Hotel.
He managed to pick out from her dialect that the diva had been plunged in some secret sorrow.
The unconventional artist life, her romantic early history, her foreign birth, her carefully veiled coming début, all this conspired to cover the singular reticence of the divaas to her home life.
The incognito divawas a dream of beauty in her ravishing Viennese morning dress.
In short, the private parlour of an elderly and respectable Diva of the year '40.
The homage in the young girl's voice made the little Diva more good-humouredly insistant than before, and Goneril was too well-bred to make a fuss.
Signor Graziano rose, a little stiffly, and led the pretty withered little Diva to the piano.
Sir Everard,' he said, 'always despised wealth in comparison of honour and birth; and indeed he hath no occasion to court the Diva Pecunia.
He had promised to sing with the Diva a celebrated duet.
The Diva was ill, or pretended to be so, and now, at the last moment, announced that it was impossible to appear.
For the fierce Justine knew that she was going to be sea-sick on the yacht, and the meek Potts never was, though she had crossed the ocean with the Diva in rough weather.
The Diva was angry, he thought; that was clear, and perhaps she had some right to be.
Mr. Van Torp had told the Diva that he would like her to choose a wedding present which she really wanted, adding that he had a few little things for her already.
The Diva cared nothing for money in itself, but she could use a vast amount of it with great satisfaction and quite without show or noise.
