J. H. Ryley
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John Handford Ryley was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in the comic baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, particularly in America. His s
J. H. Ryley in 1897
Ryley as Ko Ko in The Mikado in New York (1885)
Ryley in Iolanthe as the Lord Chancellor in 1887
Billee Taylor
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Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" composed by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens. The satiric, cynical risqué story is based on the nautical
J. H. Ryley
…wife. Ryley appeared in leading roles in all of the New York productions of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company until 1883. He was Captain Felix Flapper in Billee Taylor (1881), Reginald Bunthorne in Patience (1881–82), Blood Red Bill in Edward Solomon's Claude Duval (1882), Philip of Aragon and Don Jose de Mantilla Les…
Arnold Breedon as Billee
Alice Burville as Arabella
Librettist and composer caricatured in a Punch review of their opera Claude Duval