Louisa Bodda-Pyne was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 soprano and opera company manager.

She was born Louisa Fanny Pyne in 1832, the youngest daughter of the alto

Alto

Alto is a musical term, derived from the Latin word altus, meaning "high" in Italian, that has several possible interpretations.When designating instruments, "alto" frequently refers to a member of an instrumental family that has the second highest range, below that of the treble or soprano. Hence,...

 George Pyne (1790–1877). Her elder sister Susan Pyne was also an accomplished singer and her uncle James Kendrick Pyne (1785–1857) was a tenor whose son and grandson, both named James Kendrick Pyne

James Kendrick Pyne

James Kendrick Pyne was an English organist and composer.-Biography:He was born in Bath into a musical family. His father, also James Kendrick Pyne was organist at Bath Abbey for 53 years and his grandfather, also James Kendrick Pyne was a tenor...

 were distinguished organists . She was manager, with the tenor William Harrison, of the Pyne & Harrison Opera Company which toured the Americas in the 1850s. In 1857 she and Harrison founded the "Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company" at the Lyceum Theatre, London. It then moved to Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663,...

 and in 1858, under the name of the Royal English Opera gained a lease of what is now the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", after a previous use of the site of the opera house's original construction in 1732. It is the home of The Royal Opera, The...

 in Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as...

 from December 1858 till 1864. She, William Harrison, W. H. Weiss and Madame Weiss formed a new company under E.T. Smith at Astley's Theatre Royal

Astley's Amphitheatre

Philip Astley opened Astley's Amphitheatre in London in 1773. * The structure was burned in 1794, then rebuilt. With increasing prosperity and rebuilding after successive fires, it grew to become Astley's Royal Amphitheatre and this was the home of the circus...

 in 1865. She married the singer Frank H. Bodda on 12 October 1868. Her husband died aged 69 on 14 March 1892 and she died at her home Cambridge Gardens, North Kensington

North Kensington

North Kensington is an area of west London lying north of Notting Hill Gate and south of Harrow Road.North Kensington is the key neighbourhood of Notting Hill...

on 20 March 1904.

External links

• Louisa Pyne, English soprano, Luminous-Lint