D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
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In 1875, Richard D'Oyly Carte asked the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan to collaborate on a short comic opera to round out an evening's entertainment. When that work, ''Trial by Jury'', became a success, Carte put together a syndicate to produce a full-length Gilbert and Sullivan work, ''The Sorcerer'' (1877), followed by ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' (1878). After ''Pinafore'' became an international sensation, Carte jettisoned his difficult investors and formed a new partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan that became the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. The company produced the succeeding ten Gilbert and Sullivan operas and many other operas and companion pieces, mostly at the Savoy Theatre in London, which Carte built in 1881 for that purpose. The company also mounted tours in Britain, New York and elsewhere, usually running several companies simultaneously. Carte's able assistant, Helen Lenoir, became his wife in 1888 and, after his death in 1901, she ran the company until her own death in 1913. By this time, it had become a year-round Gilbert and Sullivan touring repertory company.
Carte's son Rupert inherited the company. Beginning in 1919, he mounted new seasons in London with new set and costume designs, while continuing the year-round tours in Britain and abroad. With the help of the director J. M. Gordon and the conductor Isidore Godfrey, Carte ran the company for 35 years. He redesigned the Savoy Theatre in 1928 and sponsored a series of recordings over the years that helped to keep the operas popular. After Rupert's death in 1948, his daughter Bridget inherited the company and hired Frederic Lloyd as general manager. The company continued to tour for 35 weeks each year, issue new recordings and play London seasons of Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1961 the last copyright on the Gilbert and Sullivan operas expired, and Bridget set up and endowed a charitable trust that presented the operas until mounting costs and a lack of public funding forced the closure of the company in 1982. It re-formed in 1988 with a legacy left by Bridget D'Oyly Carte, played short tours and London seasons, and issued some popular recordings. Denied significant funding from the English Arts Council, it suspended productions in 2003. With Scottish Opera, it co-produced ''The Pirates of Penzance'' in 2013, ''The Mikado'' in 2016 and ''The Gondoliers'' and ''Utopia, Limited'' in 2021–22.
Some of the company's performers, over the decades, became stars of their day and often moved on to careers in musical theatre or grand opera. The company licensed the operas for performance in Australasia and to numerous amateur troupes in Britain and elsewhere, providing orchestra parts and prompt books for hire. The company kept the Savoy operas in the public eye for over a century and left an enduring legacy of production styles and stage business that continue to be emulated in new productions, as well as recordings. Provided by Wikipedia
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Trial by jury and, The pirates of Penzance / by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 2000“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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Best of vintage Gilbert & Sullivan.
Published 2010“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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H.M.S. Pinafore. by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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The yeomen of the guard. by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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The Mikado. by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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Orpheus in the underworld by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880
Published 1994“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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Authentic libretti of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas : as presented by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company during their American season / by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911
Published 1935“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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The pirates of Penzance by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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The Mikado by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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Iolanthe by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 1960“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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The Mikado by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 1977“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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Gilbert & Sullivan : their greatest hits.
Published 1993“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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The sorcerer.
Published 1967“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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Ruddigore [by] Gilbert and Sullivan. by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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The pirates of Penzance by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 1989“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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Patience / by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 1966“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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Patience / by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 1960“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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The Mikado or, The town of Titipu / by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 2003“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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The pirates of Penzance or, The slave of duty : with dialogue / by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
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The sorcerer without dialogue / by Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900
Published 2003“…D'Oyly Carte Opera Company…”
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