Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

During this time, having changed theatres from Drury Lane, where she had made her debut, she appeared during the winter seasons with her husband's employers at Covent Garden , but in her initial year there...

Patrick Sandford , who directed the first production, found exciting challenges in the play's shift in register from the stylised high comedy of the stage of Covent Garden , to the raw sometimes violent naturalism...

As tourists MB and her husband were just as interested in cultural events, industries, and industrial and military trade as they were in, for instance, old buildings. On her first visit to London she attended...

She describes, without naming names, her friendship with a German singer of Wagnerian roles, first met when he sang Tristan at Covent Garden in 1923. She met him nine years later in New York, found...

In London, the young Dinah Mulock was able to attend the theatre regularly, thanks to the offer of a private Covent Garden Theatre box for her family from Charles James Mathews and his wife...

SL 's father, John Lee , was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden , with an interim desertion to Drury Lane , where, however...

FK 's father, the actor Charles Kemble , inherited the management of Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1817 (at a time when it was in financial difficulties) when his brother John Philip Kemble retired.

The young actress Sarah Cheney married William Gardner , a journeyman actor at Covent Garden .

Susanna Haswell married William Rowson . He was a musician (playing the trumpet for the Royal Horse Guards ) and sometimes an actor with Covent Garden Theatre , as well as dealing in hardware. He...

During her early, drifting years AL worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. She worked as an assistant buyer for various shops, then worked in the...

While the family resided in London, theatre-going provided another much-welcomed form of education and entertainment. EG once attended a production of The Caravan, featuring John Kemble , in which Carlo, the famous Newfoundland...