THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Violet Mansfield (1886-87, 1894-96)

Contralto Violet Mansfield made her first appearance with the D'Oyly Carte organization on a tour of Germany and Austria as a chorister with D'Oyly Carte's "G" (Continental) Company between June 1886 and January 1887.

She was later in the chorus with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company "B" from some point in 1894 through December 1896. She appeared regularly as Inez in The Gondoliers between January 1895 and December 1896, and filled in on several occasions (in 1896) for principal contralto Alice Weathersby as Katisha in The Mikado.

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