Boston Ideal Opera Company

The company first performed Pinafore in November 1878 on a boat in a lake in Boston's Oakland Park.

[2] It engaged well-regarded concert singers and opened on 14 April 1879 at the 3,000-seat Boston Theatre.

The Boston Journal reported that the audience was "wrought up by the entertainment to a point of absolute approval".

"[citation needed] Actors in the group included Henry Clay Barnabee,[4][5] Jessie Bartlett Davis, Mena Cleary, W. H. MacDonald, Eugene Cowles, Tom Karl, Marie Stone-MacDonald,[6] Geraldine Ulmar and Alice Nielsen.

Other actors in the group for spells included Camille D'Arville, Bertha Waltzinger, Myron W.