The Duenna
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The Duenna is a three-act comic opera, mostly composed by Thomas Linley the elder and his son, Thomas Linley the younger, to an English-language libretto by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. At the time, it
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the librettist
Portrait of Thomas Linley the Elder by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770
Illustration for the song Had I a heart for falsehood fram'd
The actress Mrs Harlowe as The Duenna, depicted by George Cruikshank in an engraving published 1823.
Myer Lyon
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Myer Lyon, better known by his stage name Michael Leoni, was a hazzan at the Great Synagogue of London who achieved fame as a tenor opera singer in London and Dublin, and as the mentor of the singer J
Myer Lyon (Leoni) in the role of Carlos in Sheridan's The Duenna.
As Don Carlos in The Duenna, circa 1775