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    Selina Simmons Belasco Dolaro (20 August 1849 – 23 January 1889) was an English singer, actress, theatre manager and writer of the late Victorian era...
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    beneficiary of a special matinée at the Princess's Theatre at which Selina Dolaro, Mrs Howard Paul, Arthur Cecil and many others contributed, and Alfred...
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    The Rose of Auvergne and Breaking the Spell, in which Carte's client Selina Dolaro starred. Carte's musical talent would be helpful later in his career...
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  • unknown – Nellie Briercliffe, singer and actress (d. 1966) January 23 – Selina Dolaro, actress and singer (b. 1849) (stroke) January 31 – Joseph Gungl, composer...
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    Richard D'Oyly Carte, who was then managing the Royalty Theatre for Selina Dolaro, brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their second show, a...
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  • Europe, moving to England in 1873. There he conducted for the company of Selina Dolaro under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1876. In May 1878, for...
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  • 18 – Benjamin Godard, violinist and composer (d. 1895) August 20 – Selina Dolaro, actress and singer (d. 1889) September 22 – Olena Falkman, concert...
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    some leading roles in musical theatre pieces under the management of Selina Dolaro at the Folly Theatre and at the Alhambra Theatre in The Bronze Horse...
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    and Selina Dolaro played sisters Flossie and Sybil. She then returned to the Royalty (under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte acting for Selina Dolaro)...
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    and by women stars, such as Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, Lucy Escott, Selina Dolaro, Evelyn Millard, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Thorne, Gertrude Kingston, Emily...
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    to Visit Her? On 25 March 1875 the Royalty, under the direction of Selina Dolaro, enjoyed an historic success with Trial by Jury. In 1877, Kate Santley...
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  • H. Allen", The Times, 11 April 1963, p. 15 For example, rendering Selina Dolaro as "Doloro", Helen Lenoir as "Lenoire" and Sir George Macfarren as "Macfarlane"...
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    in Islington, produced by and starring Emily Soldene as Drogan, with Selina Dolaro in the title role, on 11 November 1871. The production ran for a year...
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    Desprez all made adaptations of the text, and London stars including Selina Dolaro, Emily Soldene, Harriet Everard, Fred Sullivan, Richard Temple and Pauline...
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    joining the acting company of Selina Dolaro, Verner appeared in The Black Prince (1874) at London's St James's Theatre. Dolaro became the lessee and star...
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    London at the Lyceum Theatre in 1870 in English starring the author and Selina Dolaro. The Prince of Wales attended one of the London performances and enjoyed...
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    character without painstaking analysis, and commented: "But then, he, Selina Dolaro, and a few other people of a like calibre I have met with are geniuses"...
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    was written specifically to be a companion piece for La Périchole. Selina Dolaro starred. Trial by Jury became a hit and led to the famous series of...
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    under the name Signor Leli, as Don José in Bizet's Carmen opposite Selina Dolaro, with the Carl Rosa Opera Company at Her Majesty's Theatre, London....
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    Manteaux Noirs (1882), Peter van Dunk in Rip Van Winkle (1882, with Selina Dolaro), and the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe and Mr. Cox in Cox and Box (1882–83)...
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    Theatre in Hervé's operetta Doctor Faust. Among the cast of Zampa was Selina Dolaro, whose company Penley joined under the management of Richard D'Oyly...
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    brief New York run in 1882 starring J. H. Ryley, Richard Mansfield and Selina Dolaro. There were productions in Vienna and Dresden. In 1884 the piece was...
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    at the St James's Theatre (1875). Joining the theatrical company of Selina Dolaro, then under the joint management of Richard D'Oyly Carte and George...
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    production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. By early 1875, Carte was managing Selina Dolaro's Royalty Theatre, and he needed a short opera to be played as an afterpiece...
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    role; the first English-language production of Carmen (1879), starring Selina Dolaro in the title role and Durward Lely as Don José; Rienzi (1879); Lohengrin...
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    House on Broadway, in Farnie's version, starring Lillian Russell and Selina Dolaro. There were three revivals there between 1882 and 1887. A German production...
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    mentioned by name in any of the London papers cited. Selina Dolaro, according to the libretto, but Dolaro did not make her stage debut until 1870 Mlle. Emma...
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    Auvergne (with Sullivan as Pierre) and Breaking the Spell, in which Selina Dolaro starred. In October, at the Alhambra Theatre, he again played Mr. Cox...
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    Duke's Daughter, managed and conducted by Carte. She next toured with Selina Dolaro, in Offenbach's The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein and The Rose of Auvergne...
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    the two leading ladies, Pattie Laverne and Selina Dolaro, argued about the tempo of a duet. Eventually, Dolaro refused to play, and Carte called on Sudlow...
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