Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King's Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane Volume 2

Contents

• 1. First performance of the Siege of Belgrade;
• 2. The author's mistake in taking Sir Charles Turner for Hobler, the chorus-singer;
• 3. The author at Paris;
• 4. Paesiello's comic opera, the 'Zingari in Fiera', at the King's Theatre;
• 5. The Beggar's Opera prohibited in Dublin;
• 6. Edinburgh;
• 7. First performance of the Wheel of Fortune;
• 8. The author apprehended as a French spy at Dover;
• 9. Fracas at Plymouth Dock;
• 10. Anecdotes of Monk Lewis;
• 11. Mazzanti, the Italian soprano, at the performance of the Beggar's Opera Travestied;
• 12. Mrs. Billington's dismay at the unexpected appearance of Monsieur de Felican, her husband;
• 13. Difficulty of eating on the stage;
• 14. The King's Theatre opened by Mr. Francis Goold;
• 15. Tobin's Honey Moon;
• 16. Miss De Camp in the 'Forty Thieves';
• 17. Madame Catalani dancing in a kitchen at Bangor, to the music of an old blind harper;
• 18. Covent Garden Theatre burnt to the ground;
• 19. The author's last appearance on the stage;
• 20. Kean's first appearance as a tragedian in 'Shylock';
• 21. Arrival at Paris;
• 22. Death of Sheridan;
• 23. List of sixty-two dramatic pieces, for which Kelly composed the music; Appendix.