Reminiscenses of Michael Kelly of the King's Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. - Kelly, Michael 1762-1826 (London Colburn, 1826)
Autobiography of the Irish tenor, composer and theatrical manager Michael Kelly (1762-1826), who created Don Curzio and Don Basilio in Mozart's 'Le nozze di Figaro', besides having an international career of importance in music history. In the early 1820s, Theodore Hook, an English man of letters and composer, helped Kelly compile these memoirs.
Frontispiece engraving with portrait of the author by Henry Meyer (1780-1847) after a drawing by Abraham Wivell (1786-1849)
ex libris Baron Theodore Rose 1918 (manuscript)
Including a period of nearly half a century; with original anecdotes of many distinguished persons, political, literary, and musical.
Keywords: Theatre Royal, Haymarket (London, United Kingdom); Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, United Kingdom); 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Music history; Institution; Tenor; Biography; Biography; Vienna (Austria); London (United Kingdom)