Benjamin Lumley in Her Majesty's Theatre - 1845
from Reminiscences of the Opera, pages 105-6:
"Ernani," however, ran on, with its moderate degree of success, for several nights during the ante-Easter season, to be followed by "Le Desert" of Felicien David, which was given as a "musical fete" on the boards of Her Majesty's Theatre. This "Grand Symphonic Pastoral Ode" (as it was denominated) met with a larger amount of "fair play" than the opera of Verdi, was very generally … more >>
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Benjamin Lumley, Reminiscences of the Opera (London, 1864), p. 105-6. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1438679318783 accessed: 3 December, 2024
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Le desert
written by FĂ©licien David |
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Date/Time | 1845 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by sp327 on Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:08:39 +0100
Approved on Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:33:55 +0100