In
2003-2008, the
musical drama
Chopin and The.Nightingale,
chronicling Chopin and Jenny Lind's secret romance, was
performed
around the world under
the patronage of British, Canadian, Danish,
French, German, Polish
and
Swedish
ambassadors. Script based on the book Chopin and The Swedish Nightingale.
Recalls The Royal Conservatory of
Music, Toronto about the concert
Chopin masterpieces and Nightingale songs:
"We held the audience for 85 minutes without an intermission and were
overjoyed at the capacity audience of 600 people". The concert was
co-produced and sponsored together with the musical drama by Icons of
Europe for World TB Day 2005 at the Royal Ontario Museum.
More
BBC says about the Chopin TV
documentary 2010:
«.....the Swedish opera star Jenny Lind, who so affected Chopin in the
final years of his life ».
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on Jenny Lind
and any related subject,
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Image 1849 from Jenny Lind (Jenny Maude, Stockholm 1927).
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