THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Walter Wadmore (1878)

[Born Islington, London 27 Jun 1850, died South Africa]

Walter Herbert Wadmore worked on tour and at the Opera Comique under D'Oyly Carte management in 1878. With the touring Comedy Opera Company, he appeared for a time as the Defendant in Trial by Jury (March-April), then came to the Opera Comique where he deputized briefly for George Power as Alexis in The Sorcerer and the Defendant in Trial (April). When Power resumed Alexis later that month, Wadmore remained as the Defendant.

Wadmore's brother Ernest also toured with the Comedy Opera Company, appearing in J. H. Ryley's farce Congenial Souls (November-December 1878).

Walter Wadmore's singing career included a few more turns on the light opera, as well as concert, stage, notably as Captain Corcoran in Luscombe Searelle's lamentable The Wreck of the Pinafore. He ultimately drifted into a career as a singing teacher in Bloomsbury, and then in Cape Town, South Africa.

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