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, in this case done as a double bill with I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), with a company that included Leonora Braham and Marguerite Macintyre.
Sources
Fletcher, 1994
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