Walter H. Fisher
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Walter Henry Fisher was an English singer and actor of the Victorian era best remembered as the creator of the role of the Defendant in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1875 opera Trial by Jury. Beginning in th
Walter H. Fisher in W. S. Gilbert's The Happy Land in 1873
Lottie Venne
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Lottie Venne was an English comic actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, who enjoyed a theatre career spanning five decades. Venne began her stage career in musical burlesque before m
Walter H. Fisher
…comic plays, classics, Victorian burlesque, and as a versatile singer in opera and operetta, Fisher seemed headed for lasting stardom alongside his wife Lottie Venne. His career was limited, however, by his struggle with alcoholism, ending in the 1880s, and he died at age 44. Gustave Slapoffski described Fisher as…
Lottie Venne in a Rotary postcard, c. 1910
Venne in 1889