Alice May (1847[1] – 16 August 1887[2]) was an English singer and actress best remembered as the creator of the soprano role of Aline in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer (1877).
After musical studies as a child, May studied voice in London with the composer George Benjamin Allen. She began singing in his concerts. May and Allen began to have a relationship, and she travelled with him to Australia in 1870, where they performed together in concerts. Beginning in 1872, May began star in comic operas in Australia. May and Allen returned to England in 1876, where she continued to perform in Offenbach works, earning good notices.
In 1877, May created the role of Aline in The Sorcerer, earning warm reviews, but she left the company after only two months. She quickly returned to Offenbach in London under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte and, by 1882, she was touring with Emily Soldene's opera company. She split up with Allen and moved to the U.S. in 1883, where she performed first in New York but soon joined Charles Ford's Opera Company in St. Louis and on tour. The next year, she married Louis Raymond, another member of the company. She was earning good notices, but she began to miss performances due to her growing struggle with alcoholism. She continued to perform on tour until 1887, when she became ill and died at the age of 40.
^May's biographer, Simpson, p. 5, says she was born between March and December 1847, based on both her stated age at death and on the age given on her voyage to Australia in 1870. In their 1881 UK census entry, her "husband" states that she was born in York and gives her age as 29, implying birth in 1851 or 1852. The certificate of her marriage in America in 1884 gives her age as 31, implying birth in 1852 or 1853. Actresses of the day were well-known to fib about their age, and May had no reason to understate her age at the time of her ship registration in 1870, so we are accepting Simpson's date.
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