Leonora Braham

Miss Leonora Braham (18**-19**) was a British singer and actress.

Not to be confused with L. Braham, a British Christy's style singer and performer, who visited the country in 1862.

The Prima Donna of London's Savoy Theatre, she was the leading actress for the Lyric Company in Stephenson and Cellier’s musical Dorothy, when it opened Cape Town’s Opera House on 31 August 1893.

In 1893-4 she performed for the Lyric Opera Company while on tour in South Africa, including performances in the Opera House, Cape Town, during October of 1894, under the management of Edgar Perkins and Arturo Bonamici, appearing in performances of inter alia Faust (Gounod), La Traviata (Verdi), I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), with a company that also included Signor Verdi and Marguerite Macintyre.

Sources

Fletcher, 1994

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.251, 382, 390, 397--8, 400.

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