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Mary Lindsey known as Mrs Lindsey (fl. 1697 – 1713) was a British singer. She specialised in comedic roles particularly opposite Richard Leveridge. She appeared in the first all-sung operas in the UK in English. Life Her birth and education are unknown. She came to notice in 1697 when she had a supporting role at the Dorset Garden Theatre in June and by the end of the year she had sung in "The Imposture Defeated". This was a five part comedy also known as "A Trick to Cheat the Devil." by George Powell. The following year she sang for Princess Anne performing a special song composed by the bass singer Richard Leveridge when the Princess came to see John Crowne's new play Caligula when it was performed in 1698. In the same year she took a rare acting part in Thomas d'Urfey's satire The Campaigners. She took the part of a nurse, although her major contribution was to sing a comedic lullaby, My dear cockadoodle by Daniel Purcell. She was a mezzo-soprano and she was billed as "Mrs Lindsey" although this does not mean that she was married. In February 1699 she sang interludes at the first performance of Peter Anthony Motteux's semi-opera The Island Princess, at Drury Lane in February 1699. The opera's music was by Daniel Purcell, Richard Leveridge and Jeremiah Clarke. In 1706 Queen Anne had a "Command Performance" of the "best Singers and Dancers, Foreign and English'". She was chosen to sing in the performance at court and Richard Leveridge was one of the other performers. She appeared in Clayton's Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus which is said to be the first all-sung opera in English. She and Leveridge appeared again in the first performance of ''Rosamund'' (again) by Clayton. One source reports this as "the first" all-sung opera in English. Lindsey and Leveridge provided a comic sub-plot. Leveridge played a pimp and Lindsey was his wife. At the beginning of 1708 the companies at the Queen's Theatre at the Haymarket and Drury Lane Theatre were rearranged. John Vanbrugh took all the singers and the actors were left at Drury Lane. Lindsey joined John Vanbrugh's company although she nearly lost her place to an Italian, but her price was too high. Lindsay was paid £2 per performance which was same fee as Leveridge and in addition there was a benefit performance for her in 1709. She chose to repeat the opera "Camilla" for the benefit and her role of the nursemaid, Tullia, opposite Leveridge who plays the younger servant, Linco. At the end of her life it is thought that she would have been occupied with teaching. References . Discover the Mary Lindsey popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mary Lindsey books.
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Ms Behaviour
Mini LeeSanta is a university student with a wonderful new boyfriend and bright future. However, she's also a bad girl with a wild streak who cultivates an illicit and obsessive reationsh...
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A Dark Enchantment
Roland VernonGreece, 1869Godwin Tudor, a young English photographer recently arrived in Athens, is intrigued by the mysterious and maverick British landowner Edgar Brooke, whose vast estate dom...
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Liverpool Songbird
Lyn AndrewsIs one young woman's beautiful singing voice enough to bring the success that will free her from poverty? Liverpool Songbird is a poignant and moving saga from Lyn Andrews, of a y...
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Someone Special
Judith SaxtonOn 21 April 1926, three baby girls are born. In North Wales, Hester Coburn, a farm labourer's wife, gives birth to Nell, while in Norwich, in an exclusive nursing home, Anna is bor...
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The White Empress
Lyn AndrewsA young woman will stop at nothing to achieve her dreams... The White Empress, by bestselling author Lyn Andrews, is a moving saga of a young woman who is determined to make her o...
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A Loving Scoundrel
Johanna LindseyThis “delightfully engaging” (RT Book Reviews) entry in New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey’s MaloryAnderson Family series follows the son of a gentleman pirate as he...
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Protecting His Own
Lindsay McKennaEpidemics run rampant in wake of earthquake Marine Recon team leadslady doctor to the scene.His job was to keep her safe. Dr. Samantha Andrews, the head ofE.R. at Camp Reedand Capt...
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The Ballerinas
Rachel Kapelke-DaleDare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voicedriven debut novel about a trio of ballerinas who meet as students at the Paris Opera Ballet School. "Enthra...
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Havoc
Mary LindseyFor the first time in his life, Rain Ryland belongs. He’s found a home with the wolf shifters of New Wurzburg and is noholdsbarred in love with Friederike Burkhart, their soontobe ...
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Let It Go
Dame Stephanie Shirley CH & Richard AskwithA moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a filmIn 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software comp...
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Velvet
Jane FeatherClad in black velvet and posing as a widowed French comtesse, Gabrielle de Beaucaire had returned to England for one purpose only to ruin the man responsible for her young lover's...
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Our Mary Ann
Anna JacobsShe thought the worst was behind her . . . Life is tough in Lancashire in 1905 and especially so for fifteenyearold Mary Ann, who was born out of wedlock. When her new stepfather ...
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The Stockport Girls
Lilly RobbinsStockport, 1944.Alice seems to have it all, but the truth is her marriage isn't as solid as it seems. Busy running her husband's family shop while he's at war, everything changes w...
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The Very Bloody History Of Britain, 2
John FarmanJohn Farman makes history hysterical in this musthave companion volume to the bestselling THE VERY BLOODY HISTORY OF BRITAIN: THE FIRST BIT!It's the wittiest and wackiest chronicle...
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The Leaving of Liverpool
Lyn AndrewsAt the close of the First World War, two sisters' battles are only just beginning... The Leaving of Liverpool is a poignant saga about the friendship between sisters, dangerous me...
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Brother Dusty Feet
Rosemary SutcliffAlong with his faithful dog Argos, elevenyearold Hugh Copplestone decides to leave his Aunt and Uncle's house after one beating too many, and heads for Oxford to seek his fortune.W...
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The Lost Wagon Train
Zane Grey & Joe WheelerThe story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery.Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thiever...
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No Choice But Seduction
Johanna LindseyFans of #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey will be delighted by this ninth novel about the aristocratic Malory familya passionate and highspirited tale that provi...
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Oblomov
Ivan GoncharovIlya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found ...