[1][2] Following her marriage, the couple moved to Providence, Rhode Island, and then to Albany, New York, where Lucy Eastcott sang at St Paul's Church alongside tenor Henry Squires.

Lucy was hired by the Teatro Nuovo in Naples as a soprano, and became a favorite there following her premiere on 10 January 1853 in Violetta,[1] which Saverio Mercadante wrote expressly for her.

[1][2][5] In 1857 Escott joined the National English Opera Company, for whom she toured the British provinces in Il trovatore, Maritana, Lucia di Lammermoor, Esmeralda, The Bohemian Girl, Cinderella, Norma, Lucrezia Borgia and La traviata.

However, William Evans Burton broke the contract after a week, and although he was after successfully sued for $4,000, Escott and her company were forced to tour in concerts and smaller opera houses in America for a year.

Light or heavy, Italian or English, operas were all the same to her, and one of her most memorable triumphs was on the night of her benefit, when she took the part of Azucena in Il trovatore and electrified the house by her splendid singing and acting, to say nothing of the compass of her voice.

They eventually took up residence in Paris, where Lucy Escott devoted herself to the study of painting and sculpture with as much energy as she had previously infused into her operatic work; and the married life of the two vocalists was an ideally perfect one.

Lucy Eastcott died of pneumonia supervening on an attack of quinsy on 26 November 1895, and was cremated according to her wishes and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.