PYNE, Louisa
Name:
PYNE, Louisa (1832-1904)
Musical genre:
Opera/Musical Theatre/Dance/Stage
Country of birth:
United Kingdom
Country of location:
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Notes:
Louisa Bodda-Pyne was an English soprano and opera company manager. Louisa Pyne was the manager, with the tenor William Harrison, of the Pyne & Harrison Opera Company which toured the Americas in the 1850s. In 1857 she and Harrison founded the Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company at the Lyceum Theatre, London. The company later moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and, in 1858, under the shortened name of the Royal English Opera, gained a lease at what is now the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden from December 1858 until 1864.
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