D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

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The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is a British professional light opera company.

Also found in various entries in ESAT are references to the D'Oyly-Carte Opera Company, the D'Oyly Carte Principal Repertory Opera Company, Richard D'Oyly Carte's Comedy Opera Company, the D'Oyly Carte B touring company,

The Company

Founded by Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1875, to stage Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas, the companies toured year-round in Britain and from time to time undertaking tours in Europe, North America and the colonies, remaining active till 1982. The company was revived for a few short seasons and tours between 1988 and 2003.

A large number of performers who had worked for the D'Oyly Carte company, have made their mark in South Africa over the years, and the company itself undertook a number of tours to the country, sometimes of their own volition, at others contracted by local managers.

Performances in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Oyly_Carte_Opera_Company

D.C. Boonzaier, 1980. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman, 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 301, 405, 410, 413.

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