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Aside from curtain raisers ( which are listed in the second table below ), the G & S operas were the only works produced at the Savoy Theatre from the date it opened ( 10 October 1881 ) until The Gondoliers closed on 20 June 1891.

Over the next decade, there were only two new G & S pieces ( Utopia Limited and The Grand Duke ), both of which had comparatively brief runs.

To fill the gap, Carte mounted G & S revivals, Sullivan operas with different librettists, and works by other composer – librettist teams.

Richard D ' Oyly Carte died on April 3, 1901.

If the nexus of Carte and the Savoy Theatre is used to define " Savoy Opera ," then the last new Savoy Opera was The Rose of Persia ( music by Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood ), which ran from 28 November 1899 – 28 June 1900.