Lola Montez has been performed by more than 100 theatres across Australia since its professional premiere in 1958, including a record 14 productions in 1988. Order our magnificent perusal video now, featuring Jon English. To listen to the most recorded song in Australian music theatre history sung by Australia's hottest new music theatre performer DAVID CAMPBELL press here. You will need this latest version to listen to the audio files in 'Real Audio' format.   Lola Montez - The Woman The "Real" Lola Montez Lola Montez - The Musical Contact Information LOLA MONTEZ - The Woman Lola's own writings are notably unreliable when it comes to facts. Her preoccupation with her own image and her determination to up-stage and discredit her enemies, render her regard for truth a secondary consideration. We know however that she was born in County Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, christened Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and nicknamed 'Lola'. Four years after her birth, her father was despatched to a military posting in India. At the age of eight Lola was sent from India to Scotland for convent schooling. At age 19, rebelling against a threat of marriage to a 60 Year old judge, Lola eloped with one Captain Thomas James and married him in County Meath. They returned to India but after three Years the marriage had faded - in 1840 Lola headed for London, and a new career! The "Real" Lola Montez Who and what was the real Lola? A great beauty certainly, gifted with intelligence and native cunning, but not with real intellect. She is reported as coarse in language and behaviour, but still capable of bewitching the salons and courts of mid.19th century Europe. She was a pioneer of feminism and of sexual liberation, but she never found lasting security with a husband or lover. Perhaps the answer to Lola is - for such a woman, no such man could exist.
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