Esmeralda (Battista)
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Esmeralda is an 1856 grand opera in four acts with a score by the Italian composer Vincenzo Battista. With a libretto in English by Charles Jefferys, it was based on Battista's Italian version Ermelin
Cover of the score of Esmeralda (1856)
Cover of the score for Ermelinda (1851)
Glazed earthenware figure of Lucy Escott in Esmeralda (c1856)
Lucy Escott
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Lucy Escott was an American soprano and actor-manager who found success in her native country but who had an even greater success in Europe and the United Kingdom. She spent eight years in Australia w
Esmeralda (Battista)
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Lucy Escott in 1863 - The Illustrated Melbourne Post, 17 January 1863
Lucy Escott as Leonora, Augustus Braham as Manrico, and Henri Drayton as the Conte di Luna in the London production of Verdi's Il trovatore, 1856. Contemporary lithograph
Lucy Escott and Henry Squires in Donizetti's La favorite in Melbourne (1862)