Louisa Pyne

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Louisa Pyne from the cover page of "The Louisa Pyne Polka", composed by S. Markstein
Louisa Pyne from the cover page of "The Louisa Pyne Polka", composed by S. Markstein

Louisa Bodda-Pyne (August 27, 1832 - March 20, 1904) was an English soprano and opera company manager.

She was born Louisa Fanny Pyne in 1832, the youngest daughter of the alto George Pyne (1790-1877)[1]. Her elder sister Susan Pyne was also an accomplished singer and her uncle James Kendrick Pyne (1785-1857) was a tenor[2] whose son and grandson, both named James Kendrick Pyne were distinguished organists [3] [4]. She was manager, with the tenor William Harrison of the Pyne & Harrison Opera Company which toured the Americas in the 1850s. In 1857 she and Harrison founded the "Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company"[5] [6] at the Lyceum Theatre, London[7]. It then moved to Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and in 1858, under the name of the Royal English Opera gained a lease of what is now the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden from December 1858 till 1864. She, William Harrison, W. H. Weiss and Madame Weiss formed a new company under E.T. Smith at Astley's Theatre Royal in 1865[8]. She married the singer Frank H. Bodda on October 12, 1868[9]. Her husband died aged 69 on March 14, 1892[10] and she died at her home Cambridge Gardens, North Kensington on March 20, 1904[11].

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  1. ^ "Marriages", The Times, October 20, 1868, pg. 1
  2. ^ Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself, Charles Edward Horn (Author), Michael Kassler (Editor), 2003
  3. ^ "Obituaries, Dr. J. K. Pyne Distinguished Organist", The Times, September 5, 1938, pg. 14
  4. ^ Louisa Pyne, short biography by Dr Michael Burden, New College, Oxford
  5. ^ "Reviews, Lyceum Theatre", The Times, December 21, 1857, pg.10
  6. ^ "Reviews, Lyceum Theatre", The Times, September 22, 1857, pg. 12
  7. ^ "Reviews, Royal English Opera", The Times, October 18, 1864, pg. 12
  8. ^ "Reviews, Astley's Theatre", The Times, June 7, 1865, pg. 12
  9. ^ "Marriages", The Times, October 20, 1868, pg. 1
  10. ^ "Deaths", The Times, March 15, 1892, pg. 1
  11. ^ The Times, March 22, 1904

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