Welsh opera singer, director and producer (1846–1917)
Henry Bracy in Australia, 1890s
Henry Bracy (8 January 1846 – 31 January 1917) was a Welsh opera tenor, stage director and opera producer who is best remembered as the creator of the role of Prince Hilarion in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Princess Ida. Bracy often played the leading tenor role in the works in which he appeared, becoming one of the most popular comic tenors of the Victorian era.[1] His wife, Clara, was an actress.
After beginning his career in Plymouth, Bracy spent four years performing at London's Gaiety Theatre in the early 1870s. He and his wife then travelled to Australia, where they performed in French operettas for the rest of the decade. They returned to Britain in 1880, continuing in operetta roles. In 1884, Bracy originated the role of Hilarion, after which he further built his reputation in British comic opera and operetta. In 1888, the Bracys returned to Australia. After a season at the Sydney Opera House and touring in operettas, the Bracys joined the J. C. Williamson organisation, by which he was employed for most of his ensuing career, until 1914, as a performer, stage manager, stage director and casting agent. His occasional attempts at theatre management on his own behalf brought him financial losses and forced him to declare bankruptcy in 1897.
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HenryBracy (8 January 1846 – 31 January 1917) was a Welsh opera tenor, stage director and opera producer who is best remembered as the creator of the...
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name Sidney Bracy, later changing the spelling of his last name. He was the son of Welsh tenor HenryBracy and English actress Clara T. Bracy. His aunt...
four occasions. Arthur Sullivan conducted the 1877 benefit for the actor Henry Compton. At the Compton benefit, Penley and George Grossmith were members...
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adaptation by Robert Reece and H. B. Farnie, starring Violet Cameron, HenryBracy, Lionel Brough and Minnie Byron. The piece was revived in the West End...
convalesce in Monte Carlo as seven provincial tours (one with a 17-year-old Henry Lytton in the chorus) and the U.S. production of Ida set out. As Princess...
honed her skills playing minor opéra bouffe roles at The Globe opposite HenryBracy with no billing, appearing in La Belle Normande in January 1881. Byron...
High Executioner. She left Williamson to work as ballet mistress for HenryBracy in 1896. Their first production was Karl Millöcker's The Beggar Student...
killed in the fire while de Bracy surrenders to the Black Knight, who identifies himself as King Richard and releases de Bracy. Bois-Guilbert escapes with...
Trove. "Martin Simonsen". The Lorgnette. 2 November 1889 – via Trove. "HenryBracy". The Lorgnette. 9 November 1889 – via Trove. "Elsa May". The Lorgnette...
1977 as his Master of Fine Arts thesis. It features Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, and Charles Bracy, among others, in acting roles. The film depicts the...
well-known stars, as more prosaic entertainments nearby were doing well. HenryBracy, in conjunction with Johnny Solomon, took over many of the Simonsen artists...
1881 with a libretto by Farnie, and cast including Lionel Brough and HenryBracy); Gillette de Narbonne (Paris, 1882; London, as Gillette, 1883, libretto...
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Pontvert – Fred Mervin/Carl Irving Eugène Marcel (the Marquis' secretary) – HenryBracy/Harry Pepper Vicomte Ernest de Brissac – Horace Bolini/C. L. Weeks Captain...
Cerbyd Awen Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns) 8 January - HenryBracy, tenor (d. 1917) 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d...
role, Claude Marius (1850–1896) as Favart, and Walter H. Fisher, then HenryBracy as Hector. The production famously ran for 502 performances, remarkably...
opened in March 1883 as Lurette, with Florence St John, Lottie Venne and HenryBracy in the leading roles. The piece was twice adapted for the cinema in East...
Peter at the Strand Theatre Bracy took up the Australian rights to The Sultan of Mocha, producing the show with his HenryBracy's Comic Opera Company at the...
William Gwynne Hughes, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 58 31 January – HenryBracy, tenor, 71 2 February – Frederick William Harris, coalowner, 84 28 February...
Gertrude Bambrick - Lead Assyrian Dancer Lionel Barrymore - Extra Clara T. Bracy - Bethulian Kathleen Butler - Bethulian William J. Butler - Bethulian Christy...
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