{"product_id":"9781906830045","title":"Reminiscences Of The Opera","description":"From 1842 to 1853 and again from 1856 to 1858, Benjamin Lumley \u003cbr\u003e(1811-1875) was manager of Her Majesty's Theatre in London, the great nineteenth-century English home of romantic ballet and Italian opera.\u003cbr\u003eLumley was studying for the bar when, in the 1835 to 1836 season, Pierre-\u003cbr\u003eFrançois Laporte, the then manager of the theatre, employed him first on legal and then on financial business. For five years he worked as Laporte's assistant, and after the latter's death in 1841 he took over as manager.\u003cbr\u003eLumley brought some of the greatest international stars of the time to \u003cbr\u003eLondon, but his prodigious expenditure could not keep pace with his income, and both his reigns ended in financial disaster.\u003cbr\u003eUnder his aegis, however, appeared such dancers as Marie Taglioni, \u003cbr\u003eCarlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito, Lucille Grahn, Jules Perrot and Arthur\u003cbr\u003eSt.-Léon, and the singers Giulia Grisi, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Antonio \u003cbr\u003eTamburini, Johanna Wagner, Luigi Lablache, Fanny Tacchinardi-Persiani and Jenny Lind, and their stories, intermingled with Lumley's own triumphs and disasters, are brought vividly to life in this fascinating and long out-of-print autobiography.","brand":"Dance Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033115902192,"sku":"9781906830045","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906830045_p0.jpg?v=1763617847","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906830045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}