Boston Ideal Opera Company

The Boston Ideal Opera Company, later The Bostonians, was a comic opera acting company based in Boston from 1879 through 1905.

Effie Hinckley Ober (1843-1927) started the group in 1879 to perform an "ideal" production of H.M.S. Pinafore in Boston. It was a great success, and the company continued, and toured widely.

When the top actors later took over the group around 1887, it became "The Bostonians."

Actors in the group included: Henry Clay Barnabee,Jessie Bartlett Davis, W.H. MacDonald, Eugene Cowles, Tom Karl, Marie Stone-MacDonaldGeraldine Ulmar and Alice Nielsen. Other actors in the group for spells included Camille D'Arville, Bertha Waltzinger, and Myron W. Whitney. Other involved with the group included Kirke La Shelle.

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