Albert Cavanagh
Albert Cavanagh was a singer and performer.
Also found as Albert Kavanagh.
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Biography
Born Mark Albert Kavanagh in London, 1866, he became an "operatic vocalist" and a prominent member of the D'Oyly Carte Company.
He died on 26 January 1922.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
According to D.C. Boonzaier (1923), he arrived in South Africa as a prominent member of the first D'Oyly Carte Company to visit the country in 1897.
Sources
http://kurtofgerolstein.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-cache-of-cartesians-or-pottering-in.html
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 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 405
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