THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Nell Stuart (1880)

Nell (or Helen) Stuart appeared on tour as Isabel in The Pirates of Penzance with Carte's Fourth American Pirates Company from March to June 1880. She was Isabel again for the gala opening of Halleck's Alhambra, Boston, in July 1880 (a non-D'Oyly Carte production but one with Carte's blessing). She next was engaged as a chorister in a D'Oyly Carte Pirates Company that toured the eastern North America beginning in September 1880. On November 19, in Philadephia, she once more took the part of Isabel in a benefit matinee. She shortly left the Company for New York where she appeared with the Comley-Barton Opera Company as Moustique in Olivette (Bijou Opera House and Fifth Avenue Theatre, December 1880-May 1881.

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