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Effie Hinckley Ober
Effie Hinckley Ober Kline (1843 – February 15, 1927) was an American opera manager and booking agent. She founded the Boston Ideal Opera Company (later known as "The Bostonians") in 1879. Early life Effie Hinckley Ober was born in Sedgwick, Maine, and brought up in Blue Hill, the daughter of Samuel Ober and Mary Peters Hinckley Ober. Through her mother she was descended from Joseph Wood, co-founder of Blue Hill, and was herself a co-founder of Blue Hill's summer colony. Career Ober was a secretary at a lecture bureau in Boston as a young woman. In time, she owned a theatrical agency, the Roberts Lyceum Bureau. She founded the Boston Ideal Opera Company (later known as "The Bostonians") in 1879, with Adelaide Phillipps and Myron W. Whitney among the cast members. Her company presented American operettas, popular operas such as '' The Bohemian Girl'' and ''The Marriage of Figaro'', and the Gilbert and Sullivan favorite '' H.M.S. Pinafore''. Ober traveled with the company a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Ideal Opera Company
The Boston Ideal Opera Company, later The Bostonians, was a comic opera acting company based in Boston from 1878 through 1905.Bordman, Gerald & Thomas S. HischakThe Oxford Companion to American Theatre p. 87 (3d ed 2004) History Effie Hinckley Ober (1843–1927) started the group to perform an "ideal" production of '' H.M.S. Pinafore'' in Boston. The company first performed ''Pinafore'' in November 1878 on a boat in a lake in Boston's Oakland Park. It was a success, and the company continued.Emerson, Brad"The Pinafore Sails Down East" '' New York Social Diary'', January 25, 2011 It engaged well-regarded concert singers and opened on 14 April 1879 at the 3,000-seat Boston Theatre. The critics agreed that the company fulfilled its goal of presenting an "ideal" production. The ''Boston Journal'' reported that the audience was "wrought up by the entertainment to a point of absolute approval".Kanthor, Harold. "H.M.S. Pinafore and the Theater Season in Boston 1878–1879", '' Journal o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedgwick, Maine
Sedgwick is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,202 at the 2020 census. The town includes the village of ''Sargentville''. The countryside around Sedgwick is a haven for birdwatchers, as well as an out-of-the-way tourist stop with several bed and breakfast locations. History It was one of six contiguous townships, each six miles square, granted by Massachusetts in 1761 to David Marsh and 359 others. Called by its Abenaki name ''Naskeag,'' meaning "the end or extremity," its first permanent European settler was Andrew Black in 1759. In 1789, the town was incorporated as Sedgwick, named after Major Robert Sedgwick, who in 1654 captured nearby Fort Pentagouet (now Castine) from the French. In 1817, land was taken from the township to form Brooksville, with more taken in 1849 to form Brooklin. By 1859, the population was 1,235. Farmers found the surface broken and ledgy, better suited for grazing than cultivation. Gristmills and sawmills were bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Phillipps
Adelaide Phillipps (26 October 1833 – 3 October 1882) was an Anglo-American opera singer and actress who became one of America’s most admired contraltos of the Victorian era. Gänzl, Kurtbr>Adelaide Phillipps: Brummy child to prima donna contralto Kurt of Gerolstein Theatrical Research, 5 June 2021 Early life She was born as Adelaide Maria Marianne Phillipps in St Paul's in Bristol in England, the second of six children and the only daughter of Alfred Phillipps (c1806–1867), a chemist and druggist, and Mary ''née'' Rees (c1811–1854), who with her sister was a dancing and calisthenics teacher in Bristol. Adelaide Phillipps was baptised at the church of St James in Bristol on 7 April 1833. Her parents placed her on the stage at an early age and she danced at various benefit performances in her native Bristol between the age of 6 and 8, including at the Theatre Royal, Bristol in May 1841 and playing the title role in ''Bombastes Furioso''. On 7 June 1841 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
