Harper-Leffler Company
There are two references to a company by this name.
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The Harper-Leffler Opera Company
Henry Harper, miss Annette Hirst and Mrs J.H. Leffler from the Royal Opera House, London performed six concerts of opera selections in the Commercial Exchange and the Mutual Hall, Cape Town. First season: 5 August - 9 September 1868. From December ’68 to January 1869 David Harper was back in SA with a company under a new name, the Miranda-Harper Company. New concerts were performed during August 1869. They were not the first to perform opera in SA, but the first opera company to do so, and for an entire season. Also performed in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
The Harper-Leffler Repertory Company, Kimberley
According to Du Toit (1988), a Harper-Leffler Company also performed as permanent ‘repertory’ company active in Kimberley during the 1890s.
Sources
Bosman, 1980: 248 – 249; Du Toit, 1988
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