THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

W. O. Wilkinson (1881)

Baritone W. O. Wilkinson appeared on tour in America as Ben Barnacle in Stephens & Solomon's Billee Taylor with D'Oyly Carte's Second American Billee Taylor Company between April and August 1881. It was his only role with D'Oyly Carte.

By the mid-1880s Wilkinson was working as choirmaster and organist at the Church of the Redeemer, Long Island City, New York.



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