D'Oyly Carte
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Richard, 1844–1901, English theatrical producer.
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an English light opera company founded in London in 1881 by Richard D'Oyly Carte primarily for the presentation of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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D'Oyly Carte Island was bought by London theatre impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte in the late 19th Century.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
After leaving the Commons, he joined the board of trustees of the D'Oyly Carte Trust and, after being raised to the peerage as Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, was a regular attendee in the Lords.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2016
He conducted the operettas for stage performances for the D'Oyly Carte company, and early in his career fashioned a very successful ballet, Pineapple Poll, from Sullivan's music.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2010
From 1959 to 1979, Mr. Reed was the principal comedian of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, the London professional troupe founded in the 1870s to stage the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2010
And those who declare that the Scots cannot see a joke would be disabused if they were to be at the D'Oyly Carte seasons at Glasgow and Edinburgh.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
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