to a mania, and engrossed all his thoughts when not occupied with his art. He had come to be a considerable adept in fire work-making..." Mme Tietjens told of a hazardous journey with him back from a performance in the theatre at Dublin, in a cab stuffed full of fireworks, with excited but unaware fellow travellers smoking pipes and cigars around them. Giuglini himself was a cigar-smoker, and enjoyed gossip and conspiracy among his companions. According to a story published in 1951 purporting to be based in historical reality, from around 1858 to 1863 Giuglini openly maintained a relationship with a married woman, Mrs Agnes Wyndham (formerly Agnes Willoughby), wife of 'Mad' Wyndham of Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, which caused a frisson of public scandal. Mrs Wyndham was very attached to Giuglini and set up house with him in London, despite the fact that her husband appeared from time to time to create embarrassing scenes, and threatened her with divorce. The writer tells that when Giuglini's popularity and fortunes began to wane late in 1863, and he could no longer underwrite her expenses, she detached herself from him, at about the time he entered an asylum in Chiswick. However she was deeply affected by news of his death in 1865. A critique Santley, who had admired him in Milan, felt afterwards that he was not so fine a singer as Italo Gardoni, the tenor who succeeded him in London. Santley also wrote: In 1893, George Bernard Shaw could still write of his own time as the 'post-Giuglinian days'; and Giuglini's name was often coupled with that of the great tenor Mario. Notes Sources J.H. Mapleson, The Mapleson Memoirs, 2 vols (Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1888). H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (London: OUP, 1974 printing). C. Santley, Student and Singer - The Reminiscences of Charles Santley (London: Edward Arnold, 1892). C. Santley, Reminiscences of my Life (London: Isaac Pitman, 1909). G.B. Shaw, Music in London 1890-1894, 3 vols (London: Constable,1932). J. Sims Reeves, The Life of Sims Reeves written by himself (London: Simpkin Marshall, 1888). External links 1861 Mayer Brothers photograph of Giuglini in Victoria and Albert Museum, Cat. Item S.144:100-2007 1827 births 1865 deaths Italian operatic tenors People from Fano Österreichischer Kammersänger 19th-century Italian male opera singers Chamber singers of the Emperor of Austria