Benjamin Lumley's Victorian Opera

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  • Benjamin Lumley's Victorian Opera Book Detail

  • Author : Susie Timms
  • Release Date : 2007
  • Publisher : Bezazzy Publishing
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 204
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 12,12 MB

Benjamin Lumley's Victorian Opera by Susie Timms PDF Summary

Book Description: Sensational, brilliant, disastrous. Solicitor turned impresario Benjamin Lumley counted Napoleon, Count d'Orsay, Verdi, Mendelssohn, and 'Swedish Nightingale' soprano Jenny Lind amongst his friends. Once dubbed 'the mysterious man', and a reluctant successor to actor-manager Laporte, he survived two turbulent mid-19th century decades of directing the Italian opera and ballet at London's Her Majesty's Theatre. Lumley's Reminiscences of the Opera (1864) gives a rare insight, as well as providing interest for students of law, management, opera and theatre. Yet these are only part of his remarkable story. This is a new view of the 'Reminiscences', with added detail about Lumley's life and death, his dedication to Mrs Grote, his fascination with light and colour, his vision of another world and his creative writing under a pseudonym. This title is fully indexed and features contemporary illustrations.

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