THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Rose Chapelle

Rose Chapelle (1880-82)

Rose Chapelle toured in America with the Adah Richmond Opera Bouffe and Burlesque Company, appearing as Glow Worm in a burlesque, Chow-Chow, in 1878.In April-May 1879 she was at New York's Fifth Avenue in Offenbach's The Rose of Auvergne and von Suppe's Fatinitza.

She made her D'Oyly Carte debut in February or March 1880 as Kate in The Pirates of Penzance on tour with Carte's Third American Pirates Company. The tour ended in July. In September 1880 she was Kate again with another of Carte's touring American Pirates companies. She left that tour in February 1881 to join the D'Oyly Carte and E. E. Rice production of Stephens and Solomon's Billee Taylor, appearing as Susan with their First American Company in New York and Boston (February-June 1881). Her next role was the Lady Saphir in Carte's New York production of Patience (September 1881-January 1882) at the Standard Theatre.

In February 1882 Miss Chapelle appeared in New York with the Comly-Barton Opera Company, and in October of that year played Susan again in a non-D'Oyly Carte revival of Billee Taylor at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. It appears to have been her last role on the New York Stage.

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