Alice Burville

[2] Later that year, she made a success in Ten of 'Em, by Franz von Suppé, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: "Miss Burville sings a charming song (which she gave with such freshness and effect as to secure an enthusiastic encore.

[7] In the same year, she appeared for the manager John Hollingshead in an Offenbach operetta, The Song of Fortunio[8] and a burlesque, Young Rip Van Winkle.

[10] She next toured with Selina Dolaro, in Offenbach's The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein and The Rose of Auvergne, and Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot,[11] before finishing the year in pantomime in Birmingham.

[12] In 1877, Burville took over the role of Rosalinde in London's first Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss II[13] and Orphee aux Enfers, both at the Alhambra Theatre.

[1] She next toured in America with Lydia Thompson's troupe, appearing in Offenbach's Blue Beard and Robinson Crusoé, as well as in Oxygen and Piff-Paff, playing, respectively, Fatima, Polly Hopkins, Suzel and Joconde.

[1][14] She returned to London in January 1878, playing the title-rôle in a revival of Offenbach's Geneviève de Brabant, presented by Carte in a double bill with Arthur Sullivan's Cox and Box.

[16] At the end of June 1878, Burville joined Carte's Comedy-Opera Company at the Opera Comique playing Lady Viola in the curtain raiser The Spectre Knight,[17] while singing in the chorus and covering the role of Josephine in H.M.S.