severed the connection when Italo Gardoni was brought in to sing Edgardo in Lucia opposite Jenny Lind. But that autumn in Manchester he sang in Lucia and La sonnambula, days after Lind appeared in the same works there, and Reeves obtained the better houses. Reeves sang La sonnambula and Lucia at Covent Garden in October.

In oratorio, Reeves first sang Messiah in Glasgow,