Countess Granville in Paris - 19 November, 1824, at night
from Letter from Lady Granville to her sister, Lady G Morpeth, and her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 November 1824, page 315:
Dear relations, I vary twenty times a day. Sometimes in transport, sometimes in despair.
In transport when, as last night, I sat in the dark corner of my box at the Italian Opera listening to Zuchelli, Cinti, and La Signora Mombelli, a little woman with a voice and articulation that charmed me. In despair when peeping out between the acts I beheld Hyde Parker and Onslow ogling the atmosphere, Aldborough and Bagration, like two old nettles in a box, dressed à I'énfance, Lady Mildmay in another, beautiful as ever but cut in brass.
Henrietta Elizabeth [Harriet] Leveson Gower, Letter from Lady Granville to her sister, Lady G Morpeth, and her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 November 1824. In F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet Countess Granville, 1810–1845, volume 1 (London, 1894), p. 315. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1537282652511 accessed: 8 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersUnspecified opera | performed by Carlo Zucchelli, Laure Cinti-Damoreau, Signora Mombelli |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 19 November, 1824, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public, solitary |