Ten Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

This collection was recently released by acornmedia, and comprises 10 of the 14 operettas upon which William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan collaborated. All are performed by the famous D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which is the self-same company that originally performed the works at the Savoy theatre in the 1870-80's. This collection was originally broadcast on American Public Television in 1982. All episodes were ripped to at least 1.4 GB with the highest quality allowed by DVDFab. The notes below are of a typical show. Each show is offered with complete show notes. The collection is in .RAR due to space rules on TPB and to keep the collection alive. Individual shows are torrented already on TPB.

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Gilbert and Sullivan - (1877) The Sorcerer
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1878) H.M.S. Pinafore
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1880) The Pirates of Penz
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1881) Patience
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1882) Iolanthe
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1884) Princess Ida
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1885) Mikado
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1887) Ruddigore
Gilbert and Sullivan ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ (1888) The Yeoman of the Guard
Gilbert and Sullivan - (1889) The Gondoliers


The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was a professional light opera company that staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas. The company performed nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere, from the 1870s until it closed in 1982. It was revived in 1988 and played seasons in London and on shorter tours until 2003. The Times praised "the company's unique performance style, which may be summarised as a combination of good taste and good fun".

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 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 then 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 D'Oyly Carte 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.

A new D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was formed in 1988 with a legacy left by Bridget D'Oyly Carte. It toured (although not continuously) and played London seasons of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and a few continental operettas, also issuing some popular recordings. Denied significant funding from the English Arts Council, however, the new company was forced to suspend productions in 2003. 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.