Jessie Bond
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Jessie Charlotte Bond was an English singer and actress best known for creating the mezzo-soprano soubrette roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. She spent twenty years on the stage, the bul
Jessie Bond
Bond as Cousin Hebe with Grossmith as Sir Joseph in H.M.S. Pinafore, 1887 revival
Bond as Iolanthe, 1882
Grey, Braham and Bond in The Mikado
Leonora Braham
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Leonora Braham was an English opera singer and actress primarily known as the creator of principal soprano roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.
Jessie Bond
…characteristics of the performers themselves. For instance, Gilbert noted in an interview that the fact that the female singers to be engaged for The Mikado, Leonora Braham, Bond, and Sybil Grey, were all of short stature inspired him to make them schoolgirls—three "little" maids—and to treat them as a closely linked trio…
Leonora Braham
Braham as Patience
George Power, Braham, Jessie Bond and Julia Gwynne at Sullivan's memorial in 1914