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Erminie
''Erminie'' is a comic opera in two acts composed by Edward Jakobowski with a libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton, based loosely on Charles Selby's 1834 English translation of the French melodrama, ''Robert Macaire''. The piece first played in Birmingham, England, and then in London in 1885, and enjoyed unusual international success that endured into the twentieth century. Performance history ''Erminie'' opened at the Grand Theatre, Birmingham, England, on 26 October 1885. It transferred to the Comedy Theatre in London, then under the management of Violet Melnotte, opening on 9 November 1885 and playing for a total original run of 154 performances.Stone, David''Violet Melnotte (1855–1935)'', Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Boise State University, accessed 25 April 2014 It starred Florence St. John who, being pregnant, ceded the role to a young Marie Tempest in December; Melnotte took the role of Cerise. On 18 February 1886, the piece moved to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Jakobowski
Edward Jakobowski (17 April 1856 – 29 April 1929) was an English composer, especially of musical theatre, best known for writing the hit comic opera ''Erminie''. Life and career Jakobowski was born in Islington, London, the only son of Israel Jakobowski (born c. 1819), a salesman dealing in stationery and cigars, and his wife Fanny (born c. 1834), who were both Viennese of Polish extraction. He had an older sister, Helena (born c. 1855). At age six, he moved to Vienna, Austria, where he lived for some 15 years and was given a musical education. In the late 1870s he lived in Paris for three years. In 1881, he returned to London."Edward Jakobowski and Comic Opera" ''Kate Field's Washington'', vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 300–01, 17 January 1894, accessed 24 April 2014 Jakobowski's most successful work by far, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casino Theatre (New York City)
The Casino Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1404 Broadway and West 39th Street (Manhattan), 39th Street in New York City. Built in 1882, it was a leading presenter of mostly musicals and operettas until it closed in 1930."Casino Theatre (Built: 1882 Demolished: 1930 Closed: 1930)" ''Internet Broadway Database'' (Retrieved on December 31, 2007) The theatre was the first in New York to be lit entirely by electricity, popularized the chorus line and later introduced white audiences to African-American shows. It originally seated approximately 875 people, however the theatre was enlarged in 1894 and again in 1905, after a fire, when its capacity was enlarged to 1,300 seats. It hosted a number of long-running comic operas, operettas and musical comedies, including ''Erminie'', ''Florodora'', ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wyatt (singer)
Frank Wyatt (7 November 1852 – 5 October 1926) was an English actor, singer, Actor-manager, theatre manager and playwright. After beginning his career as an illustrator and painter, in 1877 Wyatt began a stage career in comedy, Victorian burlesque, pantomime and operetta. In 1884 he had success in a Shakespeare role in Henry Irving's company, and in 1885 he created the role of Ravennes in the comic opera ''Erminie'', which went on to become an international sensation. In this production he met Violet Melnotte, who also appeared in ''Erminie'' and who managed the theatre where it premiered; they married in 1886. In his more than two-decade career on stage Wyatt is best remembered for his roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1889 to 1891, and in particular for creating the role of the Duke of Plaza-Toro in Gilbert and Sullivan's hit comic opera ''The Gondoliers''. Wyatt continued to perform in comic operas and comedies until about 1900. From the 1890s Wyatt and his wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Jansen
Marie Jansen (born Harriet Mary Johnson;"Made $500,000, Marie Jansen Went Through It All", ''Lowell Sun'', Lowell, Massachusetts, June 2, 1904, p. 11 November 18, 1857 – March 20, 1914At her death, ''The New York Times'' reported that Jansen was 65 years old: "Marie Jansen Dies at 65", ''The New York Times'', March 21, 1914, p. 13. However, in the 1870 census, Hattie Johnson, age 12, is listed as the daughter of Benjamin and Harriet Johnson, Boston, Massachusetts, which puts the year of Jansen's birth as 1857. In her US Passport application, May 5, 1891, Jansen listed her date of birth as November 18, 1863, so we identify her birth month and day as November 18.) was an American musical theatre actress best known for her roles at the end of the 19th century. She starred in a number of successful comic operas, Edwardian musical comedies, and comic plays in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and London during the 1880s and 1890s. After gaining notice for her role in the American produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Melnotte
Violet Melnotte (2 May 1855 – 17 September 1935), was a British stage performer, actress-manager and theatre owner of the late 19th century and early 20th century. She was the wife of Gilbert and Sullivan performer Frank Wyatt, whom she met when they both appeared in the hit operetta '' Erminie''. Melnotte performed in comic opera and pantomime in London and the British provinces for eight years before venturing into theatre management in 1885. After this, she continued to perform while managing several West End theatres. She and her husband built the Duke of York's Theatre in 1892, and she owned the theatre for four decades. In 1910 she built the Duke of York's Picture House in Brighton, a state-of-the-art facility. Early life and career Born in Birmingham in 1855 as Emma Solomon, the daughter of Henry Solomon (born 1831), a general dealer, and later a traveller in jewellery, and his wife Ellen (''née'' Coley), in 1872 she married Thomas Hopkins in Birmingham and had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Hall
Pauline Hall (born Pauline Fredrika Schmidgall;Browne, Walter and Frederick Arnold Austin. Who's who on the stage: the dramatic reference book and biographical dictionary of the theatre, Volume 1' (1906), p. 120. February 26, 1860 – December 29, 1919) was an American stage actress and singer. Biography One of the most popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century prima donnas in America, Hall left school at the age of 14 and began her career as a dancer in her native Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1875. Shortly thereafter, Hall joined the Alice Oates Opera Company, leaving it to spend time touring in straight plays with Mary Anderson. By 1880 she was working for Edward E. Rice, who cast her in several of his musical productions, giving her, among others, the trouser role of the hero Gabriel in a revival that year of ''Evangeline''. Hall continued to be a favorite in comic and light operas around the country until 1890. However, her greatest success came when she played the title role in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeWolf Hopper
William DeWolf Hopper (March 30, 1858September 23, 1935) was an American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer. A star of vaudeville and musical theater, he became best known for performing the popular baseball poem "Casey at the Bat". Life and career Hopper was born William D'Wolf Hopper in New York City, the son of John Hopper (born 1815) and Rosalie D'Wolf (born 1827). His father was a wealthy Quaker lawyer and his mother came from a noted Colonial family. His paternal grandfather Isaac Hopper was a Philadelphia Quaker, and conductor of the Philadelphia station of the Underground Railroad. Though his parents intended that he become a lawyer, Hopper did not enjoy that profession. Hopper was called Willie as a child, and then Will or Wolfie, but when he set out on an acting career he chose his more distinguished middle name as his stage name. It was modified to "DeWolf" because of the frequency that it was mispronounced "Dwolf". He made his stage debut in New Haven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Macaire
Robert Macaire is a fictional character, an unscrupulous swindler, who appears in a number of French plays, films, and other works of art. In French culture he represents an archetypal villain. He was principally the creation of an actor, Frédérick Lemaître, who took the stock figure of "a ragged tramp, a common thief with tattered frock coat patched pants" and transformed him during his performances into "the dapper confidence man, the financial schemer, the juggler of joint-stock companies" that could serve to lampoon financial speculation and government corruption. Playwright Benjamin Antier (1787–1870), with two collaborators Saint-Amand and Polyanthe, created the character Robert Macaire in the play ''l'Auberge des Adrets'', a serious-minded melodrama. After the work's failure at its 1823 premiere, Frédérick Lemaître played the role as a comic figure instead. Violating all the conventions of its genre, it became a comic success and ran for a hundred performances. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Beaudet
Rose Beaudet (born Eliza Lang; 1862–1947) was an American actress and opera singer of the late 19th and early 20th century who regularly appeared in musical theatre. She was born as Eliza Lang, the daughter of Councilman Lewis H. Lang (1836-1912) of Stockton near San Francisco, and his wife Mary Ann Lang (1848 -1878). She married S. Arlant Edwards on 15 January 1891, but had divorced him by 1902. She appeared with the C. D. Willard Company in 1903. A mezzo-soprano, Beaudet's appearances on Broadway included Eva in ''The Beggar Student'' at the Casino Theatre (1883 - 1884), ''Amorita'' at the Casino Theatre (1885), Captain Delauney in ''Erminie'' at the Casino Theatre (1886), a role played in the original London production by Kate Everleigh, '' The Kitchen Belle'' (1889), Mrs St Mirim in ''Miss Innocence Abroad'' at the Bijou Theatre (1894), Catherine in ''Lost, Strayed or Stolen'' at the Fifth Avenue Theatre (1896), ''All on Account of Eliza'' at the Garrick Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Gerrish
Sylvia Gerrish (born Lillian M. Rollins; May 1860 – December 8, 1906) was an American musical theatre performer who found success in New York and London in the 1880s and early 1890s. She was known as "The Girl with the Poetical Legs"."Poetical Legs Had This Beauty" ''The Paducah Daily Sun'', December 20, 1906, accessed October 2, 2012 Gerrish began her career in San Francisco theatres in 1880 and commenced a long tour with Willie Edouin, Willie Edouin’s company the following year in a piece called ''Dreams''. She continued touring until 1883, and in 1884 she began to play roles on Broadway theatre, Broadway, especially at Bijou Theatre (Manhattan), Bijou Opera House and the Casino Theatre (Broadway), Casino Theatre, achieving considerable popularity. She travelled to London in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Manola
Marion Manola (1865 – October 6, 1914) was a comic opera singer and actress. Widely popular on stage in the late 19th century, she transitioned to vaudeville in her later career. Newspapers of the time gave a great deal of attention to Manola's personal affairs, avidly documenting her relationships, activities, and illnesses. Manola divorced her first husband to marry popular actor John B. Mason, with whom she frequently performed. Their marriage was marked by illnesses, financial difficulties, substance abuse, and allegations of adultery. After their divorce, she continued to perform sporadically. Manola famously objected to a surreptitious photograph taken of her on stage in tights. Her successful lawsuit against the photographer is cited in the influential law review article, " The Right to Privacy". Early life and career Marion Stephens was born in Oswego, New York, in 1865. She grew up in Cleveland, where she enjoyed participating in local amateur operas. When she was 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Everleigh
Kate Everleigh (1864 – 8 February 1926) was a serio-comic actress and singer of the late Victorian era who was a music hall and burlesque performer as well as appearing in pantomime and musical theatre. In America in 1877, with Lydia Thompson's Company, she appeared in Reece and Farnie's burlesque ''Oxygen, or, Prince Fritz of Virgamen'' Reece's burlesque of ''Robinson Crusoe'' and a version of ''Bluebeard''. Other appearances in the United States included a production of ''The Magic Slipper'' with the Colville Opera Company at the Bush Street Theatre in San Francisco in November 1879. A critic wrote of her performance, "Miss Kate Everleigh made a handsome Prince, and might perhaps have scored a success had she been compelled to act the part in pantomime". Everleigh also appeared in a burlesque with the Famous Colville Opera Burlesque Company at the California Theatre in San Francisco called ''Ill Treated Il Travotore, Or, The Mother, The Maiden, and The Musicianer'' (1880 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
