Lady Lyttelton in London, England - late February, 1811
from Letter from Lady Sarah Spencer to her brother, the Hon. Robert Spencer, 28 February 1811, pages 120–121:
You would have been quite of my opinion about the other gay place I have been at, and that was the play, where I saw the two fashionable pieces, “The Knight of Snowdoun” and “Bluebeard.” The… more >>
Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton, Letter from Lady Sarah Spencer to her brother, the Hon. Robert Spencer, 28 February 1811. In Hon. Mrs. Hugh Wyndham (ed.), Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton 1787–1870 (London, 1912), p. 120–121. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1541422117865 accessed: 14 October, 2024
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The Knight of Snowdoun
written by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop |
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Blue Beard
written by Michael Kelly (tenor) |
Experience Information
Date/Time | late February, 1811 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
The music heard seems to have been more than incidental music to a largely spoken play. 'The Knight of Snowdoun' is described as a 'musical drama' in Grove Online, and 'Blue Beard' as a 'grand dramatic romance'. Lady Sarah Spencer married William Henry Lyttelton on 3 March 1813, after which she was known as Lady Lyttelton. He succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Baron Lyttelton in 1828.