• Madame Vestris may refer to: Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (born Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797–1856), English singer, actress and theatre producer and manager...
    373 bytes (80 words) - 14:27, 27 December 2017
  • Thumbnail for Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
    which a 'Madame Vestris', not Eliza Lucia Vestris who was born several years later, but Françoise-Marie-Rosette Gourgaud, the wife of Angiolo Vestris, and...
    24 KB (2,844 words) - 10:19, 11 November 2024
  • Elizabeth Vestris (Elizabetta Lucia Bartolozzi, 1797–1856), English singer and actress-manager, wife of Auguste Armand Vestris, called Madame Vestris on stage...
    851 bytes (141 words) - 01:39, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Olympic Theatre
    Charles E. Madame Vestris and her times, New York, Brentano's, pp. 161–63 Theatre Museum (PeoplePlay), accessed 23 March 2007. Bratton, Jacky. "Vestris, Lucia...
    14 KB (1,329 words) - 19:04, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tinsel
    Tinsel print of Madame Vestris as Apollo, English, 1837-40...
    10 KB (1,112 words) - 11:43, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Madame Vestris at Covent Garden returned the play to the stage with a relatively full text, adding musical sequences and balletic dances. Vestris took...
    115 KB (14,418 words) - 13:19, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicolas Anselme Baptiste
    Théâtre de la République—who had already secured Talma, Dugazon and Madame Vestris—hastened to obtain his services, and, in order to get him at once (1793)...
    3 KB (359 words) - 16:35, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Burlesque
    being juxtaposed with the modern activities portrayed by the actors. Madame Vestris produced burlesques at the Olympic Theatre beginning in 1831 with Olympic...
    29 KB (3,390 words) - 07:37, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rose Vestris
    stage name Dugazon. She married the ballet-dancer Angiolo Vestris (younger brother of Gaétan Vestris). She was engaged at the Comédie-Française in 1768. She...
    3 KB (227 words) - 04:33, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francesco Bartolozzi
    Bartolozzi, born in 1757, also became an engraver and later fathered Madame Vestris a celebrated English actress, opera singer, and theater manager. In...
    18 KB (1,610 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Giuditta Pasta
    1824 as follows: It is a mezzo-soprano, somewhat similar to that of Madame Vestris, but clearer, more powerful, and of greater compass. She commands two...
    9 KB (1,144 words) - 19:35, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Armand Vestris
    famous singer, actress and theatre manager known under the stage name "Madame Vestris", from whom he separated in 1817. Philip H. Highfill e.a., A biographical...
    3 KB (358 words) - 06:40, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pandora
    makes the tragedy complete. Pandora (1861) by Pierre Loison (1816–1886) Madame Vestris in the burlesque Prometheus and Pandora, an 1831 print Swedish soprano...
    48 KB (6,166 words) - 14:34, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles James Mathews
    married Madame Vestris, then lessee of the Olympic, as her second husband. That year he also toured the US, to lukewarm reviews. In 1856, Mme Vestris died...
    7 KB (781 words) - 16:26, 28 March 2024
  • on the other. The play's first production ran for three months, with Madame Vestris as Grace Harkaway and Charles Mathews (replacing John Brougham who originated...
    10 KB (1,139 words) - 00:26, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Love's Labour's Lost
    Shakespeare's era was not until 1839, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, with Madame Vestris as Rosaline. The Times was unimpressed, stating: "The play moved very...
    41 KB (5,265 words) - 01:13, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dion Boucicault
    well-known actors as Charles Mathews, William Farren, Mrs Nesbitt and Madame Vestris. Boucicault rapidly followed this with a number of other plays, among...
    23 KB (2,647 words) - 18:45, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Box and Cox (farce)
    Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192820338. Pearce, Charles E. (1900). Madame Vestris and Her Times. London: Stanley Paul. OCLC 848554132. Rollins, Cyril;...
    20 KB (2,863 words) - 14:46, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Haynes Bayly
    dramatic work, was declined by many theatrical managers, but ultimately Madame Vestris produced it and appeared in it. Lord Chesterfield,[which?] who was present...
    6 KB (881 words) - 23:30, 23 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Michael William Balfe
    first called "Young Fanny" and afterwards, when sung in Paul Pry by Madame Vestris, "The Lovers' Mistake". In 1823, upon his father's death, the teenaged...
    19 KB (2,363 words) - 07:56, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laura Keene
    Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre, including several months working under Madame Vestris. In 1852, less than a year performing in Britain, Keene accepted an...
    15 KB (1,664 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victorian burlesque
    was ballad opera, in which new words were fitted to existing tunes. Madame Vestris produced burlesques at the Olympic Theatre beginning in 1831 with Olympic...
    23 KB (2,862 words) - 09:02, 20 September 2024
  • manager, performing under her married name of Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, or Madame Vestris. Therese and Gaetano also had a second daughter Josephine. In...
    7 KB (816 words) - 04:38, 17 November 2024
  • box set has been around since the 17th century, but lacked support. Madame Vestris had introduced realistic stage furnishing in 1836 at her little Olympic...
    20 KB (2,954 words) - 16:21, 27 November 2022
  • French) opens at the Lyceum Theatre, London (under the new management of Madame Vestris and her husband Charles James Mathews) with John Pritt Harley and John...
    15 KB (1,521 words) - 23:00, 13 September 2024
  • after Shakespeare's era opens at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, with Madame Vestris as Rosaline. unknown dates Mikhail Lermontov publishes the first two...
    13 KB (1,304 words) - 18:49, 18 June 2024
  • the Olympic or other theatres. So great was his success in supplying Madame Vestris with extravaganzas that he was spoken of as a founder of a new order...
    4 KB (458 words) - 22:47, 15 July 2024
  • pseudonym Brenda Grey. Some of her novels are based on real people like Madame Vestris, Lola Montez or Jane Elizabeth Digby; she also wrote Musical Productions...
    6 KB (594 words) - 15:06, 25 February 2020
  • children took up a theatrical career : Françoise-Rose Gourgaud, called Madame Vestris (1743–1804) Jean-Henri Gourgaud (1746–1809) Marie Laurence Netter. Un...
    2 KB (214 words) - 22:51, 6 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Clare
    to be set to music and performed on stage. The performance by singer Madame Vestris was at Drury Lane Theatre on 19 February 1820; the song was threaded...
    45 KB (5,294 words) - 02:13, 21 December 2024