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Reminiscences of the Opera
A memoir of the director of Her Majesty's Theatre, London.
Reminiscences of the Opera. by Benjamin Lumley
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Benjamin Lumley's Victorian Opera
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.
Another World
Benjamin Lumley, opera manager and solicitor, was born Benjamin Levy, in 1811, the son of a Jewish merchant Louis Levy, and died 17 March 1875 in London. Lumley wrote a standard handbook on Parliamentary Private Bills.
Another World, Or Fragments From the Star City Or Montalluyah (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Another World, or Fragments From the Star City or Montalluyah When the assertion is made that the account is derived, not from the imagination, but from an actual knowledge of the star, it will at first receive scant credence, and the reader will be at once inclined to class the fragments among those works about imaginary republics and imaginary travels which, ever since the days of Plato, have from time to time made their appearance to improve the wisdom, impose on the credulity, or satirize the follies of man kind. Nor can the reader's anticipated want of faith be deemed other than natural; for, although tests applied daily during a period extending over nearly a lifetime have...
