The Irish Boy

the long version

A romantic biography, the charming true story told in the form of a novel about the career of Michael Kelly the famous singer of the late eighteenth century. The Irish boy was the son of a Dublin wine merchant. As a child he possessed a voice so pure that it delighted not only his father's friends but even the roughs of the city streets. He travelled to Italy where he met Casanova and became a good friend of Mozart, in whose operas he performed, and sang for Charles Edward, The Young Pretender.