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Patti, the 19th-century Rosalía who set Lisbon alight

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Patti, the 19th-century Rosalía who set Lisbon alight

There were months of uproar and very expensive tickets that sold out in 48 hours. One hundred and forty years before Rosalía, after cholera and the quarantine, Patti, the 19th-century diva, polarised the capital in 1886.

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