page_title: Claude Duval (opera)
section_title: Roles and early casts
hierarchical_section_title: Claude Duval (opera) / Roles and early casts
caption_attribution_description: English: Caricatures of Henry Pottinger Stephens and Edward Solomon scanned from Punch magazine, 17 September 1881, p. 125. Public domain.
context_page_description: Claude Duval – or Love and Larceny is a comic opera with music by Edward Solomon to a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens. The plot is loosely based on supposed events in the life of the seventeenth century highwayman, Claude Duval.
  The piece was first produced at the Olympic Theatre, London, on 24 August 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn. It ran until the end of October. From January to March 1882, a D'Oyly Carte touring company played the work in the British provinces. Another D'Oyly Carte company played it in New York in March and April 1882 under Richard D'Oyly Carte's personal supervision, in tandem with Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. In New York, a few local references were interpolated into Blood-red Bill's comic song, "William's Sure to Be Right."
context_section_description: Claude Duval – F. H. Celli
  Charles Lorrimore – George Power
  Sir Whiffle Waffle – Arthur Williams
  Martin McGruder – Charles Ashford
  Captain Harleigh – Clarence M. Leumane
  Blood-red Bill – Fred Solomon
  Boscatt – Harold Russell
  Hodge – Mr. Goldie
  Podge – Cooper Cliffe
  Constance – Marion Hood
  Rose – Edith Blande
  Mistress Betty – Harriet Coveney
  Dolly – Nellie Sanson
  Mary – Daisy Foster
  Prudence – May Lennox
  Kenia – Violet Dare
  Barbara – Miss Beaumont
  In the 1882 D'Oyly Carte tour, which played in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee, Duval was played by G. Byron Browne;  Lorrimore by George Traverner; Blood-red Bill by George Thorne; McGruder by J. B Rae; Constance by Laura Clement; Rose by Kate Chard; Boscatt by H. Cooper Cliffe; and Mistress Betty by Miss Jones. Cooper Cliffe deputised for Browne who was taken ill in Edinburgh. In the New York company, Duval was played by William Carleton; Blood-red Bill by J. H. Ryley; Sir Whiffle Waffle by Arthur Wilkinson; and McGruder by W. H. Hamilton.
caption: Librettist and composer caricatured in Punch's review of the first performance
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