THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Irene Perry

Irene Perry (1880-81)

[Born New York 1863, died New York 29 May 1941]

Irene Perry, real name Irene Bryant, made her first appearance on the New York Stage as Sir Joseph Porter (!) in a New York Juvenile Opera Company production of H.M.S. Pinafore at Wood's Broadway Theatre on October 20, 1879.

By February 1880 she was touring as an adult as Isabel with D'Oyly Carte's Third American Pirates of Penzance Company until July of that year.

Miss Perry had two further D'Oyly Carte engagements. In September 1880 she appeared as Isabel in Pirates with another D'Oyly Carte American Pirates Company, until November when the part was taken by Helen Stuart. Miss Perry regained Isabel in Januarry 1881, before moving up to Kate near the end of the run in February. She later toured as a charity girl with R. D'Oyly Carte and E. E. Rice's Second Billee Taylor Company in America in the Spring of 1881. Her name appears in the programme for a benefit matinee put on by the combined (First and Second) companies in New York for Helen Lenoir, May 19, 1881. The programme consisted of the first act of The Pirates of Penzance, the second act of H.M.S. Pinafore, followed by the first act of Billee Taylor. Miss Perry played Isabel in the first segment.

Subsequently, she appeared in New York as Lady Saphir in Patience with Rice's Comic Opera Company (in November 1881), and on tour as Constance Partlett in The Sorcerer, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Lady Angela in Patience with the McCaull Opera Comique Company (in 1885).

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