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Arnold And Tilla English Opera Troupe Playbill, W. H. Tilla, William Horton, Blance Ellerman, Walter Birch, D. Oakley, Tom Bartleman, James A. Arnold, Clara Fisher, Frank Howson
Arnold And Tilla English Opera Troupe Playbill, W. H. Tilla, William Horton, Blance Ellerman, Walter Birch, D. Oakley, Tom Bartleman, James A. Arnold, Clara Fisher, Frank Howson
Maine Bicentennial
Seeking to cultivate popular support for opera in the Victorian Era, American-style opera evolved with traveling troupes performing in English, particularly during the post-Civil War period.
This playbill, ca. 1860s, is for the performance of the Arnold and Tilla's English Opera Troupe at Norumbega Hall in Bangor. The company was formed by the principle artists of the Kellogg Opera Company and the Richings Opera Company for a three-week tour of Maine. They performed the Daniel Auber opera, Fra Diavolo and Michael William Balfe's Bohemian Girl on two different nights. Fra Diavolo was one of the Kellogg Company's standard operas while …