Background
Born into a theatrical family as Louisa Fanny Pyne, she was the youngest daughter of the alto George Pyne (1790–1877).
Born into a theatrical family as Louisa Fanny Pyne, she was the youngest daughter of the alto George Pyne (1790–1877).
Life and career
Louisa Pyne was the manager, with the tenor William Harrison, of the Pyne & Harrison Opera Company which toured the Americas in the 1850s. In 1857 she and Harrison founded the Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company at the Lyceum Theatre, London. The company later moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and, in 1858, under the shortened name of the Royal English Opera, gained a lease at what is now the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden from December 1858 until 1864.
The following year, Pyne, along with William Harrison, West. H. Weiss and Madame Weiss, formed a new company under East.T. Smith at Astley"s Theatre Royal.
Pyne died at her home Cambridge Gardens, North Kensington on 20 March 1904.
