| LC control no. | n 79095288 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826 |
| Variant(s) | Kelly, M. (Michael), 1762-1826 Kelly, Michael William, 1762-1826 Kelly, Ml. (Michael), 1762-1826 O'Kelly, Michael, 1762-1826 Ochelli, Signor, 1762-1826 |
| Associated place | Naples (Italy) Vienna (Austria) |
| Located | Dublin (Ireland) London (England) |
| Birth date | 1762-12-25 |
| Death date | 1826-10-09 |
| Place of birth | Dublin (Ireland) |
| Place of death | Margate (England) |
| Affiliation | Conservatorio di S. Maria di Loreto (Naples, Italy) Burgtheater (Vienna, Austria) Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England) King's Theatre (London, England) |
| Profession or occupation | Tenors (Singers) Composers Theatrical producers and directors Impressarios Music publishers Vintners |
| Found in | His Reminiscences of Michael Kelly ... 1826. Grove music online, Sept. 29, 2004 (Kelly, Michael (William); b. Dec. 25, 1762, Dublin, d. Oct. 9, 1826, Margate; Irish tenor, composer, theater manager, and music publisher) The little blind boy, 181-: caption (Ml. Kelly) ISNI, viewed November 12, 2019 (0000000073599115: Kelly, Michael; Kelly, M.; Kelly, Ml.; O'Kelly, Michael; composer, tenor, theater director and music publisher) <http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000073599115> Grosses Sängerlexikon, via RILM music encyclopedias, viewed November 12, 2019 (Kelly, Michael; born December 25, 1762, Dublin, died October 9, 1826, Margate (Kent); tenor and impresario; trained in London under Morland and Michael Arne, further training by the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini; in 1779 he made his debut in Dublin, then went to Naples for more study at the Conservatory of Santa Maria di Loreto under F. Fenaroli and G. Aprile; debuted in Naples in 1781 (under the name Signor Ochelli); joined the Theater in the Hofburg in Vienna in 1783; on May 1, 1786 sang in their premiere of Le Nozze di Figaro in the roles of Basilio and Don Curzio under the baton of Mozart himself; in 1787 he went to London where he worked first at the Drury Lane Theater, then at the King's Theater; between 1802 and 1811, he worked as an independent theater entrepreneur in Dublin, but this business collapsed; temporarily ran a wine tavern and, like his father, a wine shop, but left Dublin in October 1811; a prolific composer from 1789, also published a significant memoir in 1826 (Reminiscenses)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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