She looked very pretty in her vivandière's dress and was so sprightly in that character, having touching moments when she takes leave of the Regiment.' Queen Victoria attended both her first nights, and after seeing her as Marie on the 27th wrote in her journal that Jenny Lind: 'again had a great triumph, acting and singing exquisitely. Jenny Lind took London by storm after her first appearance at Her Majesty's Opera House on as Alice in Meyerbeer's opera Robert Il Diavolo and made her first appearance as Marie on 27th May. It may represent the moment in Act 1 when Marie has to bid farewell toi the regiment that has adopted her. This oil painting is anonymous but depicts the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (1820-1887) as Marie the vivandière in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment.
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