Llewellyn Cadwaladr

That June, he joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, playing the leading tenor role of Ralph Rackstraw in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S.

During that tour, he became part of an important historical footnote when he originated the role of Frederic in the hastily assembled single British copyright performance of The Pirates of Penzance in Paignton on 30 December 1879.

[3] In 1884 he left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to appear as Rochester in Planquette and Farnie's Nell Gwynne at London's Avenue and Comedy Theatres.

[3] He again left D'Oyly Carte in July 1889, taking roles at London's Opera Comique in the operettas Castle of Como, Gretna Green and Les Cloches de Corneville.

He next toured in South America in 1890 as the leading tenor with Edwin Cleary's English Comic Opera Company, in various roles including Ralph, Frederic, Nanki-Poo and the Defendant in Trial by Jury, among others.

In 1893, he again rejoined D'Oyly Carte, touring in his old Gilbert and Sullivan tenor roles and also starring as John Manners in Haddon Hall, Captain Fitzbattleaxe in Utopia, Limited, Marco in The Gondoliers, and Vasquez in The Chieftain.