Auguste Vestris
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The singer Lucia Elizabeth Vestris appears here as Don Giovanni. In 1820 she had been hired by William Elliston, manager of London's Drury Lane Theatre and, after her success in several productions, the theater revived Moncrieff's "Giovanni in London" and cast Vestris as the lead. The production opened on May 30, 1820 and "the female Giovanni" became the singer's most famous role--later repeated at Covent Garden, Manchester, Birmingham and Dublin. Unlike Mozart's now iconic opera of the same name, this comic variation was fluid in structure and the star often improvised additions and adaptions.
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