Leith Amateur Opera Company

Category

Library Item

Item no

38718

Title

Leith Amateur Opera Company

Description

Nellie Currie (contralto) in a performance of Merrie England.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Engraver

Unknown

Date

1912

Size

13.9 x 8.9 cm

Type

Postcard

Leith Amateur Opera Company was instituted 17 April 1907. "Merrie England" was produced at the Theatre Royal 2 to 7 December 1912.

In October 1886 the United Presbyterian Church in the Kirkgate moved to new premises and the old church building was bought by a Mr Edward Edgar who ran it as a Music Hall. This was relatively short-lived as the building was burned down in March 1888. In 1889 Mr Edgar leased the site to H. E. Moss who built his new Princess Theatre on the same plot. The opening was on 30 December 1889 and Moss ran it for ten years until the lease was taken over by Julian Malvern. The Theatre was then reconstructed and it reopened as the New Gaiety Theatre on the 30 October 1899.

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