Wilhelm Ganz in Theatre Royal, Drury Lane - 2 March, 1855
from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, page 42:
The Crimean War was raging at the time, and I witnessed an extraordinary scene when I attended a performance of that opera at Drury Lane on March 2nd. After the first act Mr. Smith the director came out and announced that the Czar was dead. There was tremendous excitement in the house and "God save the Queen" and "Partant pour la Syrie" were loudly demanded by the public amid tremendous cheering. I doubted if the news was true, but hoped at least that the war was at an end.
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Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 42. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436164628291 accessed: 13 October, 2024
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L'etoile du nord
written by Giacomo Meyerbeer |
performed by Jenny Baur |
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Date/Time | 2 March, 1855 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by sp327 on Mon, 06 Jul 2015 07:37:09 +0100
Approved on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:04:53 +0000