La Diva / Diva

La soprano mejor pagada de la historia.

La mujer ms famosa del siglo XIX.

La voz que enmudeci al mundo.

Nueva York, 1851. Una nia prodigio del bel canto llamada Adelina Patti atrae la atencin del selecto circuito de la pera americana. Puede una cra nacida en una pensin de la calle Fuencarral de Madrid llegar a tener un talento tan incontestable? Adelina comienza una carrera meterica que la hace cada vez ms famosa -hasta el punto de convertirse en la soprano favorita de la reina Victoria y en confidente de la reina Isabel II de Espaa-, pero tambin vulnerable a las trampas del amor, la fama, el dinero, la traicin y la venganza.

De Abraham Lincoln al prncipe de Gales, de Guiseppe Verdi al zar Alejandro II, de Len Tolsti a Prez Galds, y pasando por Oscar Wilde, Giochino Rossini, Eugenia de Montijo, Napolon III o mile Zola, muchas fueron las celebridades de su tiempo que reverenciaron a la Patti como a una diosa, una leyenda inolvidable y adelantada a su tiempo. Consciente de elegir mejor las peras que a sus maridos, se cas tres veces, vivi rodeada de polmicas y construy su propio camino de xito mientras desafiaba la estricta moral victoriana. Todo para vivir en libertad como mujer y artista sin dejarse pisotear en un mundo hecho por y para los hombres.

En su nueva y magnfica novela, Reyes Monforte ha construido una trama pica inolvidable, la apasionante epopeya de la primera gran diva de la historia de la msica.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Reyes Monforte returns with a passionate novel about Adelina Patti, the Spanish woman that was born in a boardinghouse and became the best singer in history.

The best paid soprano in history.
The most famous woman of the nineteenth century.
The voice that silenced the world.

New York, 1851. A child prodigy of bel canto called Adelina Patti draws the attention of the select American operatic circuit. Could a girl, born in a boardinghouse on Fuencarral, a street in Madrid, end up having such an indisputable talent? Adelina begins a meteoric career that makes her more and more famous, to the point of becoming Queen Victoria's favorite soprano and Queen Elizabeth II of Spain's confident. But she was also vulnerable to the entrapments of love, fame, money, betrayal, and revenge.

From Abraham Lincoln, to the Prince of Wales, from Giuseppe Verdi to Zar Alexander II, from Leo Tolstoy to Prez Galds, and also Oscar Wilde, Gioachino Rossini, Eugenia de Montijo, Napoleon III, and mile Zola, many celebrities of her time revered Patti like a goddess, an unforgettable legend, ahead of her time. Aware that she chose her operas better than her husbands, she married three times, lived surrounded by controversy, and cleared her own path to success while defying those strict Victorian values. All to live freely as a woman and an artist, not allowing for anyone to trample on her in a world made by and for men.

In her magnificent latest novel, Reyes Monforte built an unforgettable epic storyline, the thrilling epopee of the first great diva in the history of music.