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
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
Glazed earthenware figure of Lucy Escott In Esmeralda (c1856)
Lucy Escott and Henry Squires in Donizetti's La favorite in Melbourne (1862)
Vincenzo Battista
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Vincenzo Maria Battista was an Italian composer and conductor. At first his operas were received with enthusiasm by his compatriots. Today none of his works are in the repertoire of any opera companie
Lucy Escott
…and Leonora in Il trovatore at Drury Lane opposite Augustus Braham as Manrico and Henri Drayton as the Conte di Luna. Other roles at this time included Battista's Esmeralda, Maritana, Aeolia in The Mountain Sylph and Amina in La sonnambula. When J. W. Wallack made a guest appearance Escott played one of the…
Vincenzo Battista - caricature by Melchiorre Delfico c1855