Rosina Brandram was an English opera singer and actress primarily known for creating many of the contralto roles in the Savoy operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
As Blanche in Princess Ida
Dame Carruthers in The Yeomen of the Guard
Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen; the next was The Mikado. Prince
Rosina Brandram
…principal contralto roles in every Sullivan opera at the Savoy, the only principal to achieve that distinction. The first of these was Lady Blanche in Princess Ida (1884). In the first London revival of The Sorcerer (1884) she played Lady Sangazure. She next originated the roles of Katisha in The Mikado (1885–87…
"Gently, gently": Hilarion, Cyril, and Florian break into Castle Adamant: cover of 1884 souvenir programme by Alice Havers
In armour: Costume design for Arac, Guron and Scynthius by Wilhelm, 1884
Out of armour: Guron (Warwick Gray), Arac (Richard Temple) and Scynthius (William Lugg), 1884