THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Bertha Hockheimer (1894-98, 1900-02)

[Born Brighton 6 Nov 1865, died Dartford 1952]

Bertha Matilda Hockheimer (born Hochheimer) toured with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company "E" in a good portion of the 1890s, appearing briefly in the named parts of Lady Sophy in Utopia Limited (February 1894) and Olga in The Grand Duke (July 1896), and was with Company "E" for portions of 1897 and 1898 as well. From April to December 1900 she was with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company "D" as "Song of Nightingale" in The Rose of Persia. In January 1901 she appeared with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company "E" once more, filling in that month as "Whisper-of-the West Wind" in the same opera. By April of that year, still with "E" Company, she was briefly known as Bertha Smith, in a nod to her late husband. The following year she married fellow "E" Compnay chorister Frederick W. Ford.

She had earlier toured Great Britain as Marguerite in Delia, a "romantic military comic opera" by Frank Desprez and Procida Bucalossi, beginning in March 1889.

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