Lucy Escott
Lucy Escott (born Lucy Grant , also Lucy Estcott , Lucy Eastcott ; * 1828 ; † November 26, 1895 in Paris ) was an American opera singer (soprano).
Escott performed with tenor Henry Squires in the United States, Italy, and England in the 1850s . In 1861, William Saurin Lyster engaged both of them for a six-month tour of Australia with his opera company. The troupe was so successful that they performed six evenings a week. The planned six months of the stay in Australia finally became nine years. With Escott as prima donna, operas such as Les Huguenots , Lurline , Don Giovanni , I Puritani , The Lily of Killarney by Julius Benedict , Faust , Le prophète , Oberon , Semiramide , L'Africaine , William Tell and A Masked Ball were performed . After twenty years of working together, Escott and Squires married in 1870 and retired in Paris.
Hans Werner Henze dedicated the Lucy Escott Variations (1963) to her memory, based on Amina's aria Come per me sereno from the opera La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini , a composer whom Escott had valued and adored.
Web links
- AustLit - Lucy Escott
- National Portrait Gallery - Lucy Escott
- George Martin, "Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years," University of California Press, 1993, ISBN 9780520913424 , p. 296.
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| SURNAME | Escott, Lucy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grant, Lucy (maiden name); Estcott, Lucy; Eastcott, Lucy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1828 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1895 |
| Place of death | Paris |