Louisa Pyne

Louisa Pyne

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) ["Marriages", "The Times", October 20, 1868, pg. 1] . Her elder sister Susan Pyne was also an accomplished singer and her uncle James Kendrick Pyne (1785-1857) was a tenor ["Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself", Charles Edward Horn (Author), Michael Kassler (Editor), 2003] whose son and grandson, both named James Kendrick Pyne were distinguished organists ["Obituaries, Dr. J. K. Pyne Distinguished Organist", "The Times", September 5, 1938, pg. 14] [ [http://www.luminous-lint.com/__sw.php?action=ACT_SING_IM&p1=068536422060123049741687255 Louisa Pyne] , short biography by Dr Michael Burden, New College, Oxford] . 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" ["Reviews, Lyceum Theatre", "The Times", December 21, 1857, pg.10] ["Reviews, Lyceum Theatre", "The Times", September 22, 1857, pg. 12] at the Lyceum Theatre, London ["Reviews, Royal English Opera", "The Times", October 18, 1864, pg. 12] . 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 ["Reviews, Astley's Theatre", "The Times", June 7, 1865, pg. 12] . She married the singer Frank H. Bodda on October 12, 1868 ["Marriages", "The Times", October 20, 1868, pg. 1] . Her husband died aged 69 on March 14, 1892 ["Deaths", "The Times", March 15, 1892, pg. 1] and she died at her home Cambridge Gardens, North Kensington on March 20, 1904 ["The Times", March 22, 1904] .

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