McCaull Comic Opera Company

The company produced operetta, comic opera and musical theatre in New York City and on tour in the eastern and midwestern U.S. and Canada until McCaull's death in 1894.

[1] He was representing John T. Ford, lessee of the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York, when Gilbert and Sullivan presented H.M.S.

[2] McCaull explained the goals of his opera company to The New York Times: "The public demands good voices.

[1] He opened the theatre the same year with the American premiere of the Strauss operetta The Queen's Lace Handkerchief.

[3] Also there, the company produced Prince Methusalem (1883), Der Bettelstudent (1883–84), Falka (1884), Nell Gwynne (with a new libretto),[4] Die Fledermaus (1885), Apajune, the Water Nymph (1885)[5] and The Black Hussar (1885).

The review in the Rocky Mountain News praised the cast and stated that "in musical and dramatic ability and magnificent costuming, the McCaull opera company is the best that has ever visited Denver.

"[2] The performers included Frederick Leslie, Eugène Oudin, Digby Bell, Lillian Russell, Frank Daniels, Francis Wilson, May Yohé and DeWolf Hopper.

In 1890 in Kansas City and Denver, the company produced The Black Hussar and Von Suppe's opera Clover, "which was given to a crowded and appreciative house.