Richard D'Oyly Carte

Richard D'Oyly Carte

Richard D'Oyly Carte (3 May 1844 – 3 April 1901) was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era. Rising from humble beginnings, Carte built two of London's theatres and a hotel empire, while also establishing an opera company that ran continuously for over a hundred years and a management agency representing some of the most important artists of the day.

Carte started his career in his father's music publishing and musical instrument manufacturing business. As a young man, he conducted and composed music, but he soon turned to promoting the entertainment careers of others through his management agency. Carte believed that a school of wholesome, well-crafted, family-friendly, English comic opera could be as popular as the risqué French works dominating the London musical stage in the 1870s. To that end, he brought together dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and nurtured their collaboration on a series of thirteen Savoy Operas. He founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and built the state-of-the-art Savoy Theatre to host the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Carte also built London's Savoy Hotel and acquired other luxury hotels. In addition, he erected the Palace Theatre, London, which he had intended to be the home of a new school of English grand opera, although this ambition was not realised beyond the production of a single grand opera by Sullivan, Ivanhoe. Nevertheless, his partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan, and his careful management of their operas and relationship, created a series of works whose success was unprecedented in the history of musical theatre. His opera company promoted those works for over a century, and they are still performed regularly today.

Early life

Carte's father, Richard

Carte was born in Greek Street in the West End of London on 3 May 1844, the eldest of six children. His father, Richard Carte (1808–1891), was a flautist, and his mother was the former Eliza Jones (1814–1885); they had eloped, to the disappointment of her father, Thomas Jones, a clergyman.¹ His siblings were Blanch (1846–1935), Viola (1848–1925), Rose (b. 1854), Henry (1856–1926) and Eliza (1860–1941). Of Welsh and Norman ancestry (D'Oyly is a Norman French name),² he was a descendant of Robert D'Oyly.³ To supplement his income as a performer, Carte's father joined the firm of Rudall, Rose & Co., musical instrument makers and music publishers, in 1850.⁴ After he became a partner in the business, it changed its name to Rudall, Rose, Carte and Co. and later to Rudall, Carte & Co.⁵

Carte was brought up in Dartmouth Park Road.⁶ His cultured mother exposed her family to art, music and poetry, and young Carte studied the violin and then the flute at an early age.⁷ The family spoke French at home two days a week, and his parents often took their children to the theatre.⁴ He was educated at University College School, which he left in 1860. In 1861, he achieved First Class level in the matriculation examination⁸ and then attended University College, London. However, he left later that year to work in his father's business, along with his brother, Henry.⁹ He studied music during this time and composed some pieces, which he dedicated to the actress Kate Terry.¹⁰ He also acted in amateur theatricals.⁶

Career

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall (1868);¹¹ Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871;¹²¹³ and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.⁴ On tour in 1871, Carte conducted Cox and Box by composer Arthur Sullivan and dramatist F. C. Burnand, in tandem with English adaptations of two Offenbach pieces, called Rose of Auvergne and Breaking the Spell, in which Carte's client Selina Dolaro appeared.¹⁴ Carte's musical talent would be helpful later in his career, as he was able to audition singers himself from the pianoforte.¹⁵

During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross¹⁶ and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court,¹⁷ Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.⁷¹² His two hundred clients eventually included Charles Gounod, Jacques Offenbach, Adelina Patti, Clara Schumann, Antoinette Sterling, Edward Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. German Reed, George Grossmith, Matthew Arnold, James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde.¹⁸ Hesketh Pearson said of Carte: "His acute business sense was aided by a frank and agreeable manner.... He took what other people thought were risks, but he felt were certainties. He knew everyone worth knowing... and his practical judgement was as sure as his sense of artistry."¹⁹

Founding his opera company

Programme for Trial by Jury, 1875

In 1874, Carte leased the Opera Comique, a small theatre off The Strand, where he presented a Brussels company in the British premiere of the operetta Giroflé-Giroflà by Charles Lecocq, followed by The Broken Branch, an English adaptation of Gaston Serpette's La branche cassée.²⁰ Carte announced his ambitions on the front of the programme for the latter: "It is my desire to establish in London a permanent abode for light Opera."²¹ The Observer reported, "Mr D'Oyly Carte is not only a skilful manager, but a trained musician, and he appears to have grasped the fact that the public are beginning to become weary of what is known as a genuine opera bouffe, and are ready to welcome a musical entertainment of a higher order, such as a musician might produce with satisfaction".²²

Carte later said it was "the scheme of my life" to found a school of high-quality, family-friendly English comic opera,²³ in contrast to the bawdy burlesques and adaptations of French operettas that dominated the London musical stage at that time.²⁴²⁵ His experience in writing operettas, however, had convinced him that his own creative talents were inadequate for the task. He later wrote to dramatist W. S. Gilbert, "I envy your position but I could never attain it. If I could be an author like you I would certainly not be a manager. I am simply the tradesman who sells your works of art."²⁶ Furthermore, in 1874 Carte did not yet have the resources to make his idea into reality, and after his season at the Opera Comique, he terminated his lease.²⁷ In the same year, he arranged for his client, Offenbach, to collaborate with H. B. Farnie to write a new operetta on the theme of Dick Whittington and His Cat, which played during the Christmas season at the Alhambra Theatre.²⁸²⁹³⁰

In 1875, Carte became the business manager of the Royalty Theatre, under the direction of his client, the popular singing actress Madame Selina Dolaro. There he programmed Offenbach's La Périchole. To fill out the evening (as long programmes were the fashion in Victorian theatre), he needed another piece. He remembered a libretto for a one-act comic opera that W. S. Gilbert had written and shown to him in 1873, called Trial by Jury.³¹ Meanwhile, Sullivan's popular 1867 opera, Cox and Box, had been revived at the Gaiety Theatre in 1874, and Carte had already asked him to write a piece for the Royalty. Carte knew that Gilbert had worked with Sullivan to create Thespis in 1871, and he now suggested that Sullivan could write the music for Trial by Jury.³²³³ Because Gilbert and Sullivan shared his vision of increasing the quality and respectability of English musical theatre, and so broadening its audience through the promotion of well-crafted English light operas, Carte gave them wider authority as director and music director than was customary at that time.³⁴ Trial, a comic treatment of an English courtroom, was an unexpected hit, outrunning La Périchole, and becoming the first step in Carte's scheme to establish a new genre of English comic opera.³⁵³⁶³⁷

Helen Lenoir

Carte managed the first tour of Trial by Jury, which stopped at the Theatre Royal in Dublin, Ireland, in September 1875. While there, he met a young Scottish actress, Susan Couper Black, who used the stage name Helen Lenoir. She became fascinated by his vision for establishing a company to promote English comic opera³⁶ and gave up her next engagement to join his theatrical organisation as his secretary.³⁸ Well-educated, with an organisational ability, business acumen, focus on detail and diplomatic skills that surpassed even Carte's, Lenoir gradually became intensely involved in all of his business affairs. Carte and Lenoir married in 1888, three years after the death of his first wife.³⁹⁴⁰

Even after the initial production of Trial by Jury, however, Carte continued to produce continental operetta, touring in the summer of 1876 with a repertoire consisting of English adaptations of French opera bouffe (Offenbach’s La Périchole, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot and Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d'argent), paired with two one-act English after-pieces (Happy Hampstead and Trial by Jury). Carte acted as the musical director of this travelling company.¹⁰⁴¹

Encouraged by the success of Trial by Jury, Carte made attempts in 1876 to raise money for either a revival of Thespis or a new piece.⁴² A year later, he finally found four backers and formed the "Comedy Opera Company" to produce the future works of Gilbert and Sullivan, along with the works of other British author/composer teams.²⁰ This allowed Carte to lease the Opera Comique and to give Gilbert and Sullivan firm terms for a new opera.⁴⁴³ By this time, Helen Lenoir had been promoted from Carte's secretary to his assistant.⁴⁴ The first comic opera produced by the new company was Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer in 1877, involving a tradesmanlike London magician and his patented love potion. Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte were able to select their own cast, instead of using the players under contract to the theatre where the work was produced, as had been the case with their earlier works. They chose talented actors, few of whom were well-known stars, and Carte's agency provided many of the artists.⁴⁵ The reception of the piece showed that Carte had been right: there was a promising future in family-friendly English comic opera.⁴⁶⁴⁷

The Sorcerer was followed by H.M.S. Pinafore in 1878. Business for the new opera was slow at first.⁴⁸ Carte's investors in the Comedy Opera Company advocated cutting their losses and closing the show.⁴⁹⁵⁰ After promotional efforts by Carte and Sullivan, who included some of the Pinafore music in several promenade concerts at Covent Garden, Pinafore became a hit.⁵¹ Carte persuaded Gilbert and Sullivan that when their original agreement with the Comedy Opera Company expired in July 1879, a business partnership among the three of them would be to their advantage.⁵² The three each put up £1,000 and formed a new partnership under the name "Mr Richard D'Oyly Carte's Opera Company".⁵³ Under the partnership agreement, once the expenses of mounting the productions had been deducted, each of the three men was entitled to one third of the profits.²⁰

On 31 July 1879, the last day of their agreement with Carte, the directors of the Comedy Opera Company attempted to repossess the Pinafore set by force during a performance, causing a celebrated fracas.⁵⁴ Carte's stagehands managed to ward off their backstage attackers and protect the scenery and props.⁵⁵⁵⁶ The Comedy Opera Company opened a rival production of H.M.S. Pinafore in London, but it was not as popular as the D'Oyly Carte production and soon closed.⁵⁷ Legal action over the ownership of the rights ended in victory for Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan.⁵²⁵⁸ From 1 August 1879, the new company, later called the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, became the sole authorised producer of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.⁵²

Early opera successes; property interests

Scene from H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore was so successful that Carte soon sent two additional companies out to tour in the provinces.⁵⁹ The opera ran for 571 performances in London, the second-longest run in musical theatre history up to that time.⁶⁰⁶¹ Over 150 unauthorised productions sprang up in America alone, but because American law then offered no copyright protection to foreigners, Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan were not able to demand royalties from, or to control the artistic content of, these productions.⁶²⁶³

To try to counter this copyright piracy and make some money from the popularity of their opera in America, Carte travelled to New York with the authors and the company to present an "authentic" production of Pinafore there, beginning in December 1879, as well as American tours.⁶⁴ Carte's assistant, Helen Lenoir, who became his wife in 1888, made fifteen visits to America in the 1880s and 1890s to promote Carte's interests, superintending arrangements for American productions and tours of each of the new Gilbert and Sullivan operas.³⁹ Beginning with Pinafore, Carte licensed the J. C. Williamson company to produce the works in Australia and New Zealand.⁶⁵⁶⁶

In an effort to head off unauthorised American productions of their next opera, The Pirates of Penzance, Carte and his partners opened it in New York on 31 December 1879, prior to its 1880 London premiere.⁶⁴ They hoped to forestall further "piracy" by establishing the authorised production and tours in America before others could copy it and by delaying publication of the score and libretto. They did succeed in keeping for themselves the direct profits of the venture,⁶² but they tried without success for many years to control the American performance copyrights over their operas.⁶⁷⁶⁸ Pirates was an immediate hit in New York, and later London, becoming one of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan operas.⁶⁹⁷⁰ To secure the British copyright, there was a perfunctory performance the afternoon before the New York premiere, at the Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton, Devon, organised by Helen Lenoir.⁷¹

Savoy Theatre c.1881

The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series⁷² with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.⁶⁰ Patience satirised the self-indulgent aesthetic movement of the 1870s and '80s in England.⁷³⁷⁴ To popularise the opera in America, in 1882 Carte sent one of the artistes under his management, the young poet Oscar Wilde, on a lecture tour to explain to Americans what the aesthetic movement was about.⁷⁵

Carte had been planning to build a new theatre for several years to promote English comic opera and, in particular, the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.⁷⁶⁷⁷ With profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and his concert and lecture agency, he bought property along the Strand in 1880 with frontage onto the Thames Embankment, where he built the Savoy Theatre in 1881. Carte chose the name in honour of the Savoy Palace, which had been built on the site in the thirteenth century by Peter, Count of Savoy. It later passed to John of Gaunt but was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt in 1381.⁷⁸ The Savoy Theatre was a state-of-the-art facility, setting a new standard for technology, comfort and decor. It was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electric lights⁴ and seated nearly 1,300 people (compared to the Opera Comique's 862).⁷⁹

Patience was the first production at the new theatre, transferring there on 10 October 1881. The first generator proved too small to power the whole building, and though the entire front of house was electrically lit, the stage was lit by gas until 28 December 1881. At that performance, Carte stepped on stage and broke a glowing lightbulb before the audience to demonstrate the safety of the new technology.⁸⁰ The Times concluded that the theatre "is admirably adapted for its purpose, its acoustic qualities are excellent, and all reasonable demands of comfort and taste are complied with."⁸¹⁸² Carte and his manager, George Edwardes (later famous as manager of the Gaiety Theatre), introduced several innovations at the theatre including free programme booklets, the orderly "queue" system with numbered tickets for the pit and gallery (an American idea), tea served a the interval and a policy of no tipping for cloakroom or other services.⁸⁰ Daily expenses at the theatre were about half the possible takings from ticket sales.⁴⁸³ The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premiered at the Savoy, and all of their operas came to be known as Savoy Operas.

Savoy Hotel, Strand entrance

The Savoy Hotel, designed by architect Thomas Edward Collcutt, opened in 1889. Financed by profits from The Mikado,⁸⁴ it was the first hotel lit by electric lights and the first with electric lifts.⁸⁵ In the 1890s, under its famous manager, César Ritz, and chef Auguste Escoffier, it became a well-known luxury hotel and would generate more income and contribute more to the D'Oyly Carte fortunes than any other enterprise, including the opera companies.⁸⁶ Carte later acquired and refurbished Claridge's (1893), The Grand Hotel in Rome (1896), Simpson's-in-the-Strand (1898) and The Berkeley (1900).⁸⁷

Peak years for the opera company

During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas were being written, Richard D'Oyly Carte also produced operas and plays by other writing teams, as well as other works to fill the Savoy Theatre in between new operas. Many of these were companion pieces to the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, as the Victorian audiences preferred long evenings in the theatre. Some, however, were new full-length pieces either for the Savoy or for Carte's touring companies, which toured the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and these new works, extensively. Carte and Lenoir also continued to run his management agency. As an example of their level of activity, an 1881 souvenir programme commemorating the 250th performance of Patience in London and its 100th performance in New York states that, in addition to these two productions of Patience, Carte was simultaneously producing many other projects. These included two companies touring with Patience, two touring with other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, one touring with the operetta Olivette (co-produced with Charles Wyndham), one with Claude Duval in America, a production of Youth running at a New York theatre, a lecture tour by Archibald Forbes (a war correspondent) and productions of Patience, Pirates, Claude Duval and Billee Taylor in association with J. C. Williamson in Australia, among other things.⁸⁸

Carte also introduced the practice of licensing amateur theatrical societies to present works for which he held the rights, increasing the works' popularity and the sales of scores and libretti, as well as the rental of band parts.⁸⁹ This had an important influence on amateur theatre in general. Cellier and Bridgeman wrote in 1914 that, prior to the creation of the Savoy operas, amateur actors were treated with contempt by professionals. After the formation of amateur Gilbert and Sullivan companies licensed to perform the operas, professionals recognised that the amateur societies "support the culture of music and the drama. They are now accepted as useful training schools for the legitimate stage, and from the volunteer ranks have sprung many present-day favourites."⁹⁰ Cellier and Bridgeman attributed the rise in quality and reputation of the amateur groups largely to "the popularity of, and infectious craze for performing, the Gilbert and Sullivan operas".⁹¹ The National Operatic and Dramatic Association was founded in 1899. It reported, in 1914, that nearly 200 British societies were producing Gilbert and Sullivan operas that year.⁹¹

After Patience, Carte produced Iolanthe, which opened in 1882. During its run, in February 1883, Carte signed a five-year partnership agreement with Gilbert and Sullivan, obliging them to create new operas for him upon six months' notice.⁹² Sullivan had not intended to immediately write a new work with Gilbert, but he suffered a serious financial loss when his broker went bankrupt in November 1882 and must have felt the long-term contract necessary for his security.⁹³ Gilbert scholar Andrew Crowther comments, "Effectively, [the contract] made [Gilbert and Sullivan] Carte's employees – a situation which created its own resentments."⁹⁴ The partnership's next opera, Princess Ida, opened in January 1884.⁹⁵ Carte soon saw that Ida was running weakly at the box office and invoked the agreement to call upon his partners to write a new opera. The musical establishment constantly pressured Sullivan to abandon comic opera in favour of serious music,⁹⁶ and after he was knighted in 1883, the pressure only increased. He soon regretted having signed the five-year contract.⁹⁷ In March 1884, Sullivan told Carte that "it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself."⁹⁴

During this conflict and others during the 1880s, Carte and Helen Lenoir frequently worked to smooth over the partners' differences using a mixture of friendship and business acumen.²⁶ Sullivan asked to be released from the partnership on several occasions.⁹⁸ Nevertheless, Carte was able to coax eight comic operas out of his partners in the 1880s.⁹⁹ When Princess Ida closed after a comparatively short run of nine months, for the first time in the partnership's history, the next opera was not ready. Gilbert first suggested a plot in which people fell in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge – a scenario that Sullivan had previously rejected. Gilbert eventually came up with a new idea and began work in May 1884.¹⁰⁰

Lithograph from The Mikado

Carte produced the first revival of The Sorcerer, together with Trial by Jury, and matinees of The Pirates of Penzance played by a cast of children, while he waited for his partners to finish writing the new work. This became the partnership's most successful opera, The Mikado, which opened in March 1885.¹⁰¹ The piece satirised British institutions by setting them in a fictional Japan and took advantage of the Victorian craze for the exotic and "picturesque" Far East.¹⁰² The Mikado became the partnership's longest-running hit, lasting for 672 performances at the Savoy Theatre, and supplanting Patience as the second-longest-running work of musical theatre up to that time.⁶⁰ It was extraordinarily popular in the U.S. and worldwide and remains the most frequently performed Savoy Opera.¹⁰³¹⁰⁴

The partnership's next opera was Ruddigore, which opened in January 1887. The piece, though a financial success, was a relative disappointment after the extraordinary run of The Mikado.¹⁰⁵ When Ruddigore closed after nine months, Carte mounted revivals of earlier Gilbert and Sullivan operas at the Savoy for almost a year. After another attempt by Gilbert to persuade Sullivan to set a "lozenge plot", Gilbert met his collaborator half way by writing a serio-comic plot for The Yeomen of the Guard, which premiered in October 1888.¹⁰⁶ The opera ran for over a year, with strong New York and touring productions. This was a happy time for Carte, with a long-running opera, new marriage and new hotel and opera house under construction.¹⁰¹ When Carte asked his partners for a new work, Sullivan again expressed reluctance to write another comic opera, asking if Gilbert would write a "dramatic work on a larger musical scale".¹⁰⁷ Gilbert declined but offered a compromise that Sullivan ultimately accepted: the two would write a light opera for the Savoy, and at the same time, Sullivan could work on a grand opera that Carte would produce at a new theatre he was planning to build to present British grand opera.¹⁰⁸ The new comic opera was The Gondoliers, which opened in December 1889 and became one of the partnership's greatest successes.¹⁰⁹

During these years, Carte was not just the manager of the theatre. He was a full participant in the producing partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan, involved in casting and finding designers; in charge of publicity; directing and hiring designers for the non-Gilbert works, including the many companion pieces (sometimes with the help of assistants);¹¹⁰ and casting, directing and rehearsing the touring companies, among other duties.¹¹¹ According to Henry Lytton, "Mr. Carte was a great stage manager. He could take in the details of a scene with one sweep of his eagle eye and say unerringly just what was wrong."¹¹² The quality of Carte's productions created a national and international taste for them, and he sent touring companies throughout the British provinces, to America (generally managed by Helen), Europe²⁰ and elsewhere.⁶⁶ Queen Victoria honoured the company by calling for a Royal Command Performance of The Gondoliers at Windsor Castle in 1891. Following the libretto closely, she noticed additions to the text made by some of the actors and asked Carte to explain why this was done. Carte replied that they "are what we call 'gags'". The queen answered that she had always understood that "gags were things that were put by authority into people's mouths." Carte rejoined, "These gags, Your Majesty, are things people put into their own mouths without authority."⁴ George Bernard Shaw, writing in The World in October 1893, stated:

Those who are old enough to compare the Savoy performances with those of the dark ages, taking into account the pictorial treatment of the fabrics and colors on the stage, the cultivation and intelligence of the choristers, the quality of the orchestra, and the degree of artistic good breeding, so to speak, expected from the principals, best know how great an advance has been made by Mr. D'Oyly Carte.¹¹³

End of the partnership and last years

Ivanhoe programme cover

On 22 April 1890, during the run of The Gondoliers, Gilbert discovered that maintenance expenses for the theatre, including a new £500¹¹⁴ carpet for the front lobby of the theatre, were being charged to the partnership instead of borne by Carte. Gilbert angrily confronted Carte, but Carte refused to reconsider the accounts. Even though the amount of the charge was not great, Gilbert felt that it was a moral issue involving Carte's integrity, and he could not look past it. Gilbert stormed out and wrote to Sullivan that "I left him with the remark that it was a mistake to kick down the ladder by which he had risen".⁹⁴ Helen Carte wrote that Gilbert had addressed Carte "in a way that I should not have thought you would have used to an offending menial."¹¹⁵ Matters deteriorated further, and Gilbert brought a lawsuit. Sullivan sided with Carte, who was building the Royal English Opera House, the inaugural production of which was to be Sullivan's forthcoming grand opera.²⁰ Gilbert won the dispute and felt vindicated, but his actions had been hurtful to his partners, and the partnership disbanded.¹¹⁶

Carte's first production at the Royal English Opera House was of Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe, which opened in January 1891. It played for an initial run of 155 performances, a record for an opera, but no other operas shared the new opera house with it. Instead, Ivanhoe was presented every night with alternating casts. When Ivanhoe finally closed in July, Carte had no new work ready to play at the opera house, and so it had to close. The opera house re-opened in November 1891 with André Messager's La Basoche at first alternating in repertory with Ivanhoe, and then La Basoche played alone, closing in January 1892.²⁰ Carte again had no new opera to present at the house, and the venture soon failed. Sir Henry Wood, who had been répétiteur for the production, recalled in his autobiography, "If D'Oyly Carte had had a repertory of six operas instead of only one, I believe he would have established English opera in London for all time. Towards the end of the run of Ivanhoe I was already preparing The Flying Dutchman with Eugène Oudin in the name part. He would have been superb. However, plans were altered and the Dutchman was shelved."¹¹⁷ Carte leased the theatre to Sarah Bernhardt for a season and finally abandoned the project. He sold the opera house at a loss to producer Augustus Harris.²⁰ It was then converted into a music hall, the Palace Theatre of Varieties, and later became the Palace Theatre.¹¹⁸¹¹⁹

The Entr'acte expresses its pleasure that Gilbert and Sullivan are reunited.

Because of the carpet quarrel, Gilbert had vowed to write no more for the Savoy.¹¹⁶ When The Gondoliers closed in 1891, Carte needed new authors and composers to write works for the Savoy Theatre. He turned to old friends George Dance, Frank Desprez and Edward Solomon for his next piece, The Nautch Girl, which ran for a satisfying 200 performances in 1891–92. Carte then revived Solomon and Sydney Grundy's The Vicar of Bray, which ran through the summer of 1892. Next came Grundy and Sullivan's Haddon Hall, which held the stage until April 1893.¹²⁰ While Carte presented new pieces and revivals at the Savoy, his touring companies continued to play throughout Britain and in America. In 1894, for example, Carte had four companies touring Britain and one playing in America.¹²¹

Gilbert's aggressive, though successful, legal action had embittered Carte and Sullivan, but the partnership had been so profitable that Carte and his wife eventually sought to reunite the author and composer. After several attempts by the Cartes, the reconciliation finally came through the efforts of Tom Chappell, who published the sheet music to their operas.¹²² In 1893, Gilbert and Sullivan produced their penultimate collaboration, Utopia, Limited. While Utopia was being prepared, Carte produced Jane Annie, by J. M. Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle, with music by Ernest Ford. Despite the popularity of Barrie and Conan Doyle, the show was a flop, closing after only 51 performances.¹²³

George Grossmith comforts Carte after failure of The Grand Duke

Utopia was Carte's most expensive production to date, but it ran for a comparatively disappointing 245 performances, until June 1894.¹²⁰ Carte then played first Mirette, composed by André Messager, then The Chieftain, by F. C. Burnand and Sullivan. These ran for 102 and 97 performances, respectively.¹²⁴ The company then toured the London suburbs, and the theatre was dark during the summer of 1895, reopening in November for a revival of The Mikado.¹²⁵ This was followed in 1896 by The Grand Duke, which ran for 123 performances and was Gilbert and Sullivan's only financial failure. The Gondoliers turned out to be Gilbert and Sullivan's last big hit, and after The Grand Duke, the two men never collaborated again.¹²⁰ At the Savoy, Carte produced His Majesty (1897), The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (1897), The Beauty Stone (1898) and The Lucky Star (1899), as well as revivals of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.¹²⁵

Though the 1890s brought Carte more disappointments than hits in the theatre, his hotel business prospered and grew. He acquired Simpson's-in-the-Strand¹²⁶ and Claridge's Hotel, both of which he entirely rebuilt.¹²⁷ There was one grave setback, in 1897, when he had to dismiss his manager, Ritz, and his star chef, Escoffier, for financial misconduct.¹²⁸ Carte's choice as successor to Ritz was George Reeves-Smith, manager and part-owner of the Berkeley Hotel. To secure his services, Carte bought the Berkeley in 1900 and promoted Reeves-Smith to be managing director of the whole Savoy Group.¹²⁹ Carte had used the same method, a year earlier, to secure a new maître d'hôtel. He was determined to engage M. Joseph, proprietor of the Marivaux Restaurant in Paris, then at the height of its fame. Carte was seriously ill, but he insisted on being carried to the boat-train. In Paris he bought the Marivaux and returned with Joseph to the Savoy.¹³⁰

Throughout the later 1890s, Carte's health was in decline, and Helen assumed more and more of the responsibilities for the opera company. She profitably managed the theatre and the provincial touring companies.³⁹ In 1894, Carte had hired his son, Rupert, as an assistant. While Carte was ill, in 1897, Rupert assisted Mrs. Carte and W. S. Gilbert with the first revival of The Yeomen of the Guard at the Savoy.¹³¹ The Savoy put on a number of shows for comparatively short runs during this period, including Sullivan's The Beauty Stone, which ran for only 50 performances, in 1898.¹³² In 1899, Carte finally had a new success with Sullivan and Basil Hood's The Rose of Persia, which ran for 213 performances.¹³³ Neither Carte nor Sullivan lived to see the production of the next piece by Hood, The Emerald Isle, for which Edward German completed Sullivan's unfinished score.¹³⁴

Personal life

Carte was married twice. His first wife was Blanche Julia Prowse (1853–1885), the daughter of William Prowse, a piano manufacturer, music publisher and booking agent. As a teenager, she had participated in amateur theatricals with Carte.⁶ They married in 1870²⁰ and had two sons, Lucas (1872–1907) and Rupert.¹³⁵ Blanche died in 1885,¹³⁵ and in 1888, Carte married his assistant, Helen.³⁸ Their wedding took place in the Savoy Chapel, with Arthur Sullivan as the best man.¹³⁶ Rupert received training in an accounting firm and then became his father's assistant in 1894. Lucas, who was not involved in the family businesses, became a barrister. He was appointed Private Secretary to Lord Chief Justice Charles Russell in 1899 in connection with the Venezuelan boundary arbitration in Paris. There he contracted tuberculosis and later died of that disease at the age of 34.¹³⁷

Carte's London house was at the Adelphi, not far from the Savoy.¹³⁸ Passionate about the visual arts as well as the performing arts, Carte invited his friend, the artist James McNeill Whistler, to decorate the house. Whistler had the entire billiard room painted the colour of the billiard cloth, and elsewhere painted his favourite yellow with his own hand.¹³⁹ Equally enthusiastic for technological innovation, Carte installed a lift, the first in a private house in England.¹⁴⁰ He also owned a small island in the River Thames, between Weybridge and Shepperton, located near Shepperton Lock. He built a house on the island.¹⁴¹ Originally, he intended the building to be a hotel, but he could not obtain the necessary licence and so converted it into a private home.¹⁴² In later years, Carte displayed his macabre sense of humour by keeping a crocodile on the island.¹⁴³

Carte's grave at St Andrews Church, Fairlight

Carte died at his London home, from dropsy and heart disease, just short of his 57th birthday.²⁰ He is buried in the churchyard of St. Andrew's church in Fairlight, East Sussex, near his parents' graves. A memorial service for him was held at the Chapel Royal of the Savoy, where a memorial stained glass window was later dedicated to him.¹³⁶ He left an estate valued at £250,000.²⁰¹⁴⁴

Legacy

Carte was instrumental in bringing the British theatre from its low status in the mid-Victorian age to a position of respectable eminence, with knighthoods for actors, such as Henry Irving, and for dramatists, including Gilbert.¹⁴⁵ George Bernard Shaw wrote of Carte's theatrical legacy, "Mr D'Oyly Carte founded a new school of English comic opera; raised operatic inscenation to the rank of a fine art; and finally built a new English Opera House and made a magnificent effort to do for English grand opera what he had done for comic opera."¹⁴⁶ In Carte's obituary, The Times noted, "By his refined taste he raised the reputation of the mise en scéne of the Savoy operas to a very high pitch. He set a high standard".¹³⁴ Beyond this, however, Carte's influence, through the production of the Savoy operas, heavily influenced the course of the development of modern musical theatre.¹⁴⁷¹⁴⁸

Carte was also a prime mover in making hotels respectable and respected: in the words of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Led by the prince of Wales [the Savoy] became the meeting place for London high society and the nouveaux riches of the British empire.... [The] food and the ambience lured people from the clubs to dine in public and give great parties there. It allowed ladies, hitherto fearful of dining in public, to be seen in full regalia in the Savoy dining and supper rooms."¹²⁹

Planter in front of the Savoy Hotel

Carte left the theatre, opera company, hotels and his other business interests to Helen.¹⁴⁹ Her London and touring companies continued to present the Savoy Operas in Britain and overseas.¹⁵⁰ In 1901 she leased the Savoy Theatre to William Greet, overseeing his management of a revival of Iolanthe and several new comic operas.¹⁵¹ Rupert became chairman of the Savoy Hotel by 1903, which Helen continued to own.¹⁵² In late 1906, Helen staged a Gilbert and Sullivan repertory season at the Savoy Theatre.¹⁵³ The season, and the following one, which were both directed by Gilbert, earned excellent reviews and sold well, revitalising the company. After the second repertory season concluded in 1909, however, the company did not perform in London again until 1919, only touring throughout Britain during that time.¹⁵⁴

At her death in 1913, Helen passed the family businesses to Carte's son, Rupert. He maintained the hotel business, disposing of the Grand Hotel in Rome, but expanding the group in London.⁸⁶ The Savoy Group remained under the control of the Carte family and its associates until 1994.¹⁵⁵ Carte's hotels have remained among the most prestigious in London, with the London Evening Standard calling the Savoy "London's most famous hotel" in 2009.¹⁵⁵

Rupert D'Oyly Carte refreshed the opera company's productions and added London seasons, beginning in 1919, as well as provincial and foreign tours.¹⁵⁶ In 1948 Rupert died, leaving a strong company to his daughter Bridget D'Oyly Carte.¹⁵⁷ However, the rising costs of mounting professional light opera without any government support eventually became too much for the company. Bridget was forced to close the company in 1982.¹⁵⁸ Nevertheless, the Gilbert and Sullivan operas continue to be produced frequently today throughout the English-speaking world and beyond, and Carte's vision of wholesome light operas that celebrate Great Britain endures.^159160161

Compositions

Operettas

• Dr. Ambrosius – His Secret (1868)⁶
• Marie (1871), with librettist E. Spencer Mott
• Happy Hampstead (1876), with librettist Frank Desprez (Carte wrote the music for this short piece under the pen name "Mark Lynne").²³

"Spy" cartoon in Vanity Fair

Songs

Carte's Parlour songs include:

• "Come Back to Me", words and music by Carte.¹⁶²
• "Diamond Eyes", words by L. H. F. du Terraux.¹⁶³
• "The Maiden's Watch", words by Amy Thornton, composed for and sung by Adelaide Newton
• "The Mountain Boy", sung by Florence Lancia
• "Pourquoi?" Chansonette, dedicated to Selina Dolaro
• "Questions", words by Desprez
• "The Setting Sun" (with obbligato flute accompaniment)¹⁶⁴
• "Stars of the Summer Night", Serenade, with poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Twilight", Canzonet
• "Waiting", words by Adelaide Procter.¹⁶⁵
• "Wake, Sweet Bird" (with obbligato flute accompaniment)¹⁶⁴
• "Why so pale and wan, fond lover"¹⁶⁶

Notes

References

• Ainger, Michael (2002). Gilbert and Sullivan – A Dual Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195147693. 
• Baily, Leslie (1952; revised 1966). The Gilbert & Sullivan Book. London: Cassell & Company Ltd. 
• Bettany, Clemence (ed) (1975). D'Oyly Carte Centenary, 1875–1975. London. 
• Bradley, Ian (1996). The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019816503X. 
• Cellier, François and Cunningham Bridgeman (1914). Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & sons, ltd.  This book is available online at Google books. Retrieved on 25 November 2009.
• Fitz-Gerald, S. J. Adair (1982). The Story of the Savoy Opera. London: Stanley Paul & Co. 
• Gänzl, Kurt (1986). The British musical theatre. London 2 vols.. 
• Goodman, Andrew (1988). Gilbert and Sullivan's London. London: Spellmount Ltd. ISBN 0-946771-31-6. 
• Hibbert, Christopher (1976). Gilbert & Sullivan and Their Victorian World. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. 
• Jacobs, Arthur (1986). Arthur Sullivan – A Victorian Musician. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-282033-8. 
• Joseph, Tony (1994). D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1875-1982: An Unofficial History. London: Bunthorne Books. ISBN 0-950-79921-1. 
• Laurence, Dan H. (ed.) (1989). Shaw's Music – The Complete Musical Criticism of Bernard Shaw. Max Reinhardt, Volume II. ISBN 0-370-30249-4. 
• Mander, Raymond and Joe Mitchenson (1968). Lost Theatres of London. Hart Davis Macgibbon. ISBN 0246644702. 
• Rollins, Cyril; R. John Witts (1961). The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. London: Michael Joseph, Ltd.  (and four supplements published in 1966, 1971, 1976, and 1983)
• Seeley, Paul (September 1982). "Who Was Helen Lenoir?". The Savoyard (London: D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust Ltd.) XXI (2). 
• Stedman, Jane W. (1996). W. S. Gilbert, A Classic Victorian & His Theatre. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816174-3. 
• Wilson, Robin; Frederic Lloyd (1984). Gilbert & Sullivan – The Official D'Oyly Carte Picture History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0394541138. 
• Young, Percy M. (1971). Sir Arthur Sullivan. London: Dent. ISBN 0460039342. 

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Richard Boston

But that was like Arthur Sullivan wanting to write great music without realising he was already doing it, for D'Oyly Carte. Anne Boston, his wife for a few years from 1968 until the mid-1970s, says he was the only man she ever knew to ...

2010-05-05T18:54:21Z

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2006-10-02T14:51:00Z

Jeannie C

ANNE ZIEGLER-WEBSTER BOOTH: THE ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER BOOTH STORY

After the stability of a regular – if small – salary from D'Oyly Carte, he was now a freelance performer with a small son to support. During this period he sang at Masonic concerts, made his debut in the West End as the Duke of .... They appeared in three films during and after the war: Demobbed (1944), Waltz Time (1945) (with Richard Tauber) and The Laughing Lady (1946). The variety theatres, like the music halls before them, were in their twilight years in the early ...

2009-03-02T22:08:43Z

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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado - Reed, Adams, Potter, Masterson ...

Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado / Reed, Adams, Potter, Masterson, Godfrey, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company I actually bought this as a gift for my mother. She had been looking for it. We checked Amazon and there it was! ...

2009-04-03T01:27:40Z

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April 3rd 2009 this day in history video clips

1901 - Richard D Oyly Carte, British impresario (b. 1844) 1930 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847) 1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853) 1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh ...

2001-02-01T08:00:00Z

unknown

Famous Birthdays on 25th March

1908 - Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director 1908 - David Lean, Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter) 1909 - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914) 1909 - Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls) ... 1942 - Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer 1942 - Kim Woodburn, English television personality 1943 - Pavel Lednev, USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980) 1943 - Ronald Jeffers, composer ...

2010-04-08T12:44:19Z

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Prestatyn Spring Concert details - Richard Ablitt

Andrea has sung throughout the British Isles with principals from English National Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Andrea sings regularly in concerts and recitals, and is specialising in Verdi's dramatic ...

2010-07-19T11:01:01Z

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2010-02-07T17:26:00Z

ADG

Maxminimus: The Polo Coat-Camel Hair and The Flap Flap

I'm as perplexed as you Richard. The biggest challenge I have is with the tan Polo/Crockett and Jones tasseled ones. I just flat out can't keep them shined. The one thing I've learned with the Alden color 8 cordovans-and this is probably the case with any of the colors-is that ... ADG - I think you should be inspired by D'Oyly Carte and Whistler - have Flusser make you up deatachable fur collar and cuffs and wear your Camel coat with flamboyant velevt bows on your shoes. ...

2007-09-26T22:21:00Z

DavidR90

Theatre Royal Margate Archive: Sarah Thorne

Sarah Thorne, actress and theatre manager, was born in London on 10 May 1836, the eldest of the ten children of Richard Samuel Thorne (d. 1875), an actor and theatre manager, and his wife, Sarah, née Rogers (c.1813–1896). ... George was later a leading member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Sarah Thorne gained a substantial reputation for training young players. In 1885 she opened her School of Acting, advertising for 'Ladies and Gentlemen' wishing to enter the ...

2010-07-10T23:31:47Z

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2010-07-15T00:55:25Z

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2009-01-18T08:00:00Z

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SEPLSO / Basic Classical Music Collection

Strauss, Richard Also sprach Zarathustra Reiner, Karajan, Solti. Stravinsky The Firebird Stravinsky, Dorati, Gergiev. The Rite of Spring Stravinsky, Gergiev, Muti. Tchaikovsky ** Romeo & Juliet, 1812 Ov. Dorati, Pletnev, Leaper, Muti ... Mikado D'Oyly Carte (1973), Mackerras. Mozart Cosi fan tutti Böhm (1962), Solti, Karajan. ** Don Giovanni Giulini, Krips, Davis. Le nozze de Figaro Solti, Giulini, Kleiber. Die Zauberflote Klemperer, Böhm, Abbado ...

2001-02-01T08:00:00Z

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This Day in History for 25th March

1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. 1306 - Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland 1409 - Council of Pisa opens 1571 - Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland .... 1908 - Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director 1908 - David Lean, Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter) 1909 - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914) ...

2005-08-01T19:15:00Z

drake leLane

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"The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring (Mikado)" - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company * "Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041 - III: Allegro assai" - Johann Sebastian Bach * "All That We Perceive" - Thievery Corporation * "Stolen Car" - Beth Orton ... "Popolo di Pekino!" - Giacomo Puccini * "Nessun dorma!" - Giacomo Puccini * "Mazurka, Opus 17 No. 4 (Chopin)" - Phillip Johnston and the Transparent Quartet * "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ...

2010-06-05T22:03:59Z

larryj

Chicago Classical Review » Blog Archive » Light Opera Works opens ...

Robert Brady nicely balanced the dignity and friendly authority of Sir Richard Cholmondeley. Yvonne Strumecki was wonderful in the battleaxe role of Dame Carruthers. Dennis Kelly made an aptly grizzled and paternal Sergeant Meryll, Michael Reckling a ... Tom Burch's unit set was in the sturdy D'Oyly Carte tradition with Rudy Hogenmiller's graceful and imaginative direction working creatively in a small space. Light Opera Works' Yeomen of the Guard runs through June 13. ...

2007-08-25T10:47:00Z

Chris Mills

Quizerama QI Scrapbook: Flower power

FIRST SONGS ON RADIO ONE. Beefeater (Johnny Dankworth). Flowers In The Rain (The Move). Massachusetts (Bee Gees). Even The Bad Times Are Good (The Tremeloes). Fakin' It (Simon & Garfunkel). The Day I Met Marie (Cliff Richard) ... Friends of D'Oyly Carte. University of Huddersfield. A Soviet poster exhibition. Liverpool Tate. Variety Club. Jewish National Fund for Israel. British Film Institute. British Screen Advisory Council. Attlee Foundation. Oxford University ...

2009-03-03T18:41:00Z

Jeannie C

ANNE ZIEGLER-WEBSTER BOOTH: DISCOGRAPHY : ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER ...

Gilbert and Sullivan, Gondoliers (Abridged version) Recorded under the direction of Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Dr Malcolm Sargent. (b) From the sunny Spanish shore;G Baker, E Ackland, A Moxon, W Booth, In enterprise of martial kind-G Baker, ... THREE GREAT TENORS Josef Locke, Richard Tauber, Webster Booth, EMI 7243 8 34676 2 4. There are also a number of compilation CDs which feature Webster Booth in one or two tracks. These are: ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC (1840-1990) Track ...

2008-06-20T04:54:39Z

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Essay From the Archive: Oscar Wilde in Belfast | Culture Northern ...

D'Oyly Carte had taken Patience to New York in the previous September, and he had the idea of arranging a series of readings by Wilde so as to introduce American audiences, as it were, to Bunthorne's original. ... His American tour was a huge success, and as the late Richard Ellmann has written in his biography of Wilde in 1987: 'lf America did not bend the knee to its conqueror, half the United States and half of Canada had been lectured to, and the unlectured halves had ...

2006-10-01T15:48:00Z

Jeannie C

ANNE ZIEGLER-WEBSTER BOOTH: THE WEBSTER BOOTH STORY

After his voice broke, he studied at Aston Commercial School and was set for the steady job of an accountant, but at fifteen, he began his vocal studies as a tenor with Dr Richard Wassell, the musical director at the Midland Institute in Birmingham ... This was no problem for a singer who had spent four years performing Gilbert and Sullivan with the D'Oyly Carte Company. At the beginning of the Second World War, he recorded 'The Lost Chord' at the Kingsway Hall in London, ...

2010-02-09T18:00:46Z

mesofunny

Money - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog

Folks, don't you recognize billionaire owner of Virgin Corp., Sir Richard Branson?? I can't believe you guys think the woman is mannish or skeletal. I guess we have gotten so obese on average in the US that we no longer recognize what humans are .... May 29, 2010 at 9:51 pm. THANK you, Mr Killington! Now would you like to lead us on a revisit to the birth of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company? Reply. V. says: March 4, 2010 at 7:40 am. Actually… that sort of looks like fun =\ ...

2007-07-10T12:16:00Z

Kristan Tetens

The Victorian Peeper: Was A Scottish Warlock the Inspiration for ...

Richard Mansfield (1857-1907) was an actor and producer. He appeared in several productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas during stints with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company but was best known for the dual role depicted in this double ...

2009-11-05T12:00:00Z

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'Keeper' by Andrea Gillies wins first ever Wellcome Trust Book ...

Jo Brand's judging panel included BBC science journalist Quentin Cooper, Welsh poet and non-fiction writer Gwyneth Lewis, physician and author Raymond Tallis and Richard Barnett, expert in the history of modern medicine. The shortlisted books were: .... Brian Hurwitz is D'Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts at King's College London. His research encompasses clinical medicine, ethics, law, medical history and the role of narrative thinking in medical practice. ...

2010-06-02T22:05:32Z

sunny

House M.D. Soundtrack (Season 1-6)

Richard Kaplan – Niggun of the Alter Rebbe 32. Shlomo Carlebach – Od Yishama 33. Waldeck – Jerry Weintraub 34. Accentus Ensemble – Nani, Nani 35. Original from TVShow – Eshet Chayil 36. Shlomo Carlebach – Eshet Chayil 37. Rolling Stones – Waiting on a ... D'Oyly Carte Opera Company – H.M.S. Pinafore: For He Is An Englishman (Act 2) 16. Cass McCombs – Harmonia 17. Big Strides – I Do Not Fear Jazz 18. Sly & The Family Stone – Life 19. Brad Mehldau Trio – No Moon at All ...

2010-07-16T18:37:00Z

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SGN - Seattle Gay News - Page 31 - Gilbert & Sullivan scores with ...

It was later shortened by the famous Gilbert & Sullivan producer D'Oyly Carte to about 35 minutes. No important music was cut in the newer "Savoy Version," just extended dialog and some musical verses. Cox & Box is a trifle, but a pleasant one. ... Scott Bessho and Richard Hodsdon are terrific in the title roles, and Craig Cantley is solid as the landlord. An elaborate, detailed set adds to the fun in this spirited staging. It's first-class in every way - a terrific ...

2007-02-15T15:03:42Z

Nicholas Hytner

In tribute to Steven Pimlott, 1953-2007 | Stage | guardian.co.uk

When he appeared as Sir Joseph Porter in the D'Oyly Carte Company's production of HMS Pinafore at the Savoy Theatre a couple of years ago, all his childhood dreams came true. As he was much the best actor of any director of my .... His RICHARD II and HAMLET at Stratford were awe-inspiring and were instrumental in my decision to become a director of Shakespeare (as was Nicholas Hytner's stunning HENRY V at the National Theatre). His offering of Agatha Christie's AND THEN ...

2007-08-03T06:55:16Z

The San Francisco Sentinel

San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » “H.M.S. PINAFORE” SAILS ...

CD, H.M.S. PINAFORE – Isidore Godfrey conducts the D'Oyly Carte Chorus & Orchestra. Featuring Joyce Wright, Jean Hindmarsh, , Eric Wilson-Hyde, John Reed, George Cook, Thomas Round, Donald Adams, Jeffrey Skitch, and Gillian Knight. DVD, H.M.S. PINAFORE and TRIAL BY JURY – Starring Anthony Warlow, David Hobson, Colette Mann, Tiffany Speight, John Bolton Wood, Richard Alexander; Opera Australia Melbourne Chorus, Orchestra Victoria. For your dining pleasure, Seán recommends: ...

2010-02-08T11:12:11Z

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Bradfield Festival 2010 « North West Sheffield News

Richard Jenkinson: Cello. John Tattersdill: Double Bass. The programme will include: Mozart: Quartet in G minor K478. Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor Op2. Schubert: Quintet in A D 667 The Trout. The Benjamin Frith Piano Quartet was founded in 2000 by the pianist ... Soloists from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company provide on the spot reports from the operatic front line! Tickets for this year's Festival are available from 6th April 2010. (More details nearer the time.) ...

2008-11-27T02:06:00Z

jamz

Gilbert & Sullivan: Operettas / Sargent, Pro Arte Orchestra (16 CD ...

Seasoned Savoyards lean towards Decca's D'Oyly Carte recordings, where the use of singing actors and inclusion of dialogue add up to a palpable theatrical experience. By contrast, EMI's competing cycle featured some of Britain's finest ... Denis Dowling, Sir Geraint Evans, Edna Graham, Heather Harper, Elizabeth Harwood, Stella Hitchens, Doreen Hume, Richard Lewis [Tenor], Julian Lloyd Webber, James Milligan, Elsie Morison, Lavinia Renton, Joseph Rouleau, John Shaw, ...

2008-07-03T09:30:20Z

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When I Am King, You Will Be First Against The Wall « Extreme ...

Bertrand D'oyly Carte, on July 4, 2008 at 8:59 am Said: Jo Wiley – self satisfied c*** of the highest order. Ting Tings – the Emperor is stark naked. Coldplay – 'music must mean something'. Why? The Ramones are brilliant and don't mean anything. ... Richard Ashcroft. The Verve were a genuinly interesting band, mostly down to Nick McCabe's guitar, until they decided the drugs don't work (except to get you to number one) and turned into a U2 tribute band. ...

2008-01-04T15:21:38Z

Amanda Marcotte

Pandagon :: Friday Music Post, “Hitting The Button On An iPod Is ...

Richard. January 4, 2008 at 11:19 am. A double double Random Ten: 1. Hard Times In New York Town - Bob Dylan 2. Friend - Roger McGuinn 3. Walkin' & Talkin' - The Marshall Tucker Band 4. Bombay Calling - It's A Beautiful Day 5. Can't You See - The Marshall .... D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: WS Gilbert & A. Sullivan, H.M.S. Pinafore, “Now give three cheers” Dave Edmunds: “The Wanderer” Stereolab: “Anamorphose” Bonde do Rolê: “Solta o Frango” Gillian Welch: “One More Dollar” ...

2007-09-22T18:12:00Z

Jeannie C

ANNE ZIEGLER-WEBSTER BOOTH: WEBSTER BOOTH: RECORDINGS IN MY ...

Love, could I only tell thee The Geisha, Richard Capel, Gerald Moore, March 1940, B9173. Merrie England, German, Light Opera Company, C2106. English Rose, Merrie England,, German, Clifford Greenwood, 18 July 1939, OEA8027 B8947 ..... Gilbert and Sullivan, Gondoliers (Abridged version) Recorded under the direction of Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Dr Malcolm Sargent. (b) From the sunny Spanish shore;G Baker, E Ackland, A Moxon, W Booth, In enterprise of martial kind-G Baker, ...

2006-03-01T02:35:53Z

enjolrasissex

you sung me moonstruck - There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway ...

Starring Richard Stuart (Sir Joseph Porter); Thomas Allen (Captain Corcoran); Michael Schade (Ralph); Rebecca Evans (Josephine); Felicity Palmer (Little Buttercup); and Donald Adams (Deadeye Dick) .... -1990 D'Oyly Carte Recording Starring Malcolm Rivers (The Pirate King); Gareth Jones (Samuel); Philip Creasey (Frederic); Eric Roberts (Major General Stanley); Simon Masterson Smith (Police Sergeant); Marilyn Hill Smith (Mabel); Pauline Burchell (Kate); Patricia Cameron ...

2009-08-28T07:00:00Z

Tabs

Something Here For Everyone! - Very Good Plus

3) HMS Pinafore, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Stereophonic, boxed set of 2 albums with Libretto, OSA1209 4) The Mikado, The D'Oyle Carte Opera Company with the New Symphony Orchestra of London, Isidore Godfrey, conductor. Beautiful boxed set of 2 albums with libretto. ... 13) Joan Sutherland, “Songs My Mother Taught Me” The New Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonyage. London OS26367, 1973. 14) Vera Lynn with the Roland Show Orchestra, “If I Am Dreaming” London LL1510. ...

2008-12-15T08:00:00Z

unknown

Cut Song - Television Tropes & Idioms

A few D'Oyly Carte revivals in the 20th century also cut Rose's first-act duet with Richard, her half of their second-act number "Happily coupled are we," and the second-act finale "When a man has been a naughty baronet" (which was ...

2008-05-23T13:40:00Z

Iain Dale

Iain Dale's Diary: A New Job for Digby Jones: Selling Birmingham

2 world class concert venues (symphony hall and the newly reopened Town Hall)- which is at least 1, if not 2, more than London! D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Birmingham Royal Ballet Famous Brummies (off the top of my head): JRR Tolkien Jonathan Coe ..... Richard Allen said... Lot's have people have pushed for a referendum in Birmingham on the subject of an elected mayor but despite massive support from the local paper they couldn't get signatures of 5% of the electorate. ...

2006-09-02T15:27:00Z

Jeannie C

ANNE ZIEGLER-WEBSTER BOOTH: MEMORIES OF ANNE ZIEGLER AND WEBSTER BOOTH

My Dad loved great singers like Richard Tauber, Richard Crooks, Deanna Durban Grace Moore, Nelson Eddie and Jeanette MacDonald, Joan Hammond, and of course, Anne and Webster. ..... My mother and he appeared together at concerts in Birmingham and the Midlands before he joined D'Oyly Carte as a professional. Leslie's father owned ladies' hairdressers in Soho Road, Handsworth. His son - Leslie's brother - was also in the business, and the family lived on the premises. ...

2010-08-12T10:30:00Z

CC

L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Thursday August 12, 2010 Bruce Venzke

Richard Dreyfus as a musician, winds up as a teacher for 30 years and wonders what he has actually accomplished. His Opus, of course, turns out to be all the pupils he has positively affected all those years, not the music he had been trying to finish. ...... I guess the strange copywright arrangement with D'Oyly Carte was still in effect then. Well this is probably meaningless to most of you, but you're missing some good comic musical works. They bear investigation. ...

2008-12-29T17:23:32Z

jura007

The Good Shepherd (Marcelo Zarvos & Bruce Fowler) (2006) - Foro ...

The film's main character, Edward Wilson (portrayed by Matt Damon), is loosely based on James Jesus Angleton and Richard M. Bissell. William Hurt's character, Phillip Allen, is largely based on Allen Dulles, while General Bill Sullivan, played by Robert De Niro, ... "I'm Called Little Buttercup" (H.M.S. Pinafore, Act 1) - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (1:43) Format: Mp3 128 kbps. Size: 66.2 MB. Código: http://rapidshare.com/files/177888858/Good_Shepherd_2006.rar ...

2010-08-14T11:00:41Z

unknown

No Celebrities Were Harmed - Television Tropes & Idioms

Richard, taking over Alec's customary role as Deadpan Snarker, provides a running commentary regarding a parrot and how long it actually takes someone who has been stabbed to die. .... Another Gilbert And Sullivan example: the fleshly poet Reginald Bunthorne in Patience was modeled on Oscar Wilde, to the point that D'Oyly Carte had lecture appearances by him in American cities where Patience was touring so that theatergoers could recognize what the play was parodying. ...

2010-07-08T08:07:02Z

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2009-05-03T01:10:37Z

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May 3rd 2009 this day in history video clips

1844 - Richard D Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (d. 1901) 1849 - Jacob August Riis , American journalist (d. 1914) 1849 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929) 1857 - George Gore, American baseball player (d. ...

2010-04-19T21:32:11Z

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2010-05-17T21:52:58Z

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2010-09-02T12:44:56Z

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Gilbert & Sullivan – Iolanthe / Hammond-Stroud, Mills, Collins ...

Richard van Allen, a great Basso, is luxury casting as Willis (a Bass part too often given to Baritones) and what a pleasure it is to see two major sopranos as Lelia and Celia: my old favorite Sandra Dugale (who also was Patience, Rose Maybud and Casilda in the series) and Pamela Field (who was a leading soprano with the D'Oyly Carte in the early seventies and who recorded the role of Phyllis with them.) are both delightful. Judi Trott (an uncredited member of the chorus) ...