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.

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Hoping to join in on the profits to be made in America from Pinafore, Carte left in June for New York to make arrangements for an " authentic " production there to be rehearsed personally by the author and composer.

In 2010, French author Michel Houellebecq published his novel, La Carte et le Territoire, translated into English as The Map and the Territory.

* 1844 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, English talent agent, impresario, and composer ( d. 1901 )

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.

To that end, he brought together dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and, together with his wife Helen Carte, he nurtured their collaboration on a series of thirteen Savoy Operas.

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.

The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later, those by other composer – librettist teams.

During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan (“ G & S ”) operas were being written, Richard D ' Oyly Carte produced operas by other composer – librettist teams, either as curtain raisers to the G & S pieces, or to fill the theatre when no G & S piece was available.

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

Producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte brought together librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, and nurtured their collaboration.

In 1875, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, one of the impresarios aiming to establish an English school of family-friendly light opera by composers such as Frederic Clay and Edward Solomon as a countermeasure to the continental operettas, commissioned Clay's collaborator, W. S. Gilbert, and the promising young composer, Arthur Sullivan, to write a short one-act opera that would serve as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole.

Gilbert offered a compromise that Sullivan ultimately accepted — that the composer would write a light opera for the Savoy, and a grand opera ( Ivanhoe ) for a new theatre that Carte was constructing for that purpose.

But the partnership had been so profitable that Carte eventually sought to reunite the dramatist and composer.

Carte assembled a high-quality team for His Majesty, including the well-known dramatist and writer F. C. Burnand and the well-respected composer Alexander Mackenzie.

Carte started his career in his father's music publishing and musical instrument manufacturing business.

After he became a partner in the business, it changed its name to Rudall, Rose, Carte and Co. and later to Rudall, Carte & Co.

Hesketh Pearson said of Carte: " His acute business sense was aided by a frank and agreeable manner ....

In 1875, Carte became the business manager of the Royalty Theatre, under the direction of his client, the popular singing actress Madame Selina Dolaro.

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.

During the performance on 31 July 1879, Carte's former business partners in the Comedy Opera Company ( with whom Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan had split ) tried to seize the set, creating a celebrated fracas.

Carte died in 1901, and his son Rupert D ' Oyly Carte took over the business from 1903, in which year Simpsons was closed for redevelopment.

Writer Andrew Lamb noted that Reed's " nimble dancing, characterful light-baritone singing, and the business he was able to introduce into encores and elsewhere within the generally rigid D ' Oyly Carte constraints, soon helped to establish his own loyal following, and the personal rapport he enjoyed with his fans grew to legendary status.

In the third season episode " History a la Carte ", Lisa moves her business to a cart in a local mall, which burns down because of a faulty popcorn machine in the season four episode " Sis-Boom-Bah ", after which her business is once again run out of Ray's house.

Carte used his profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works then became known as the Savoy operas.

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.

After his return to London, Carte formed a new partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan to divide profits equally after the expenses of each of their shows.

After the end of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, Carte, and later his widow, Helen ( and her manager from 1901 – 1903, William Greet ), staged other comic operas at the theatre by Arthur Sullivan and others, notably Ivan Caryll, Sydney Grundy, Basil Hood and Edward German.

In 1890, during the run of Gilbert and Sullivan's previous opera, The Gondoliers, Gilbert accused their producer, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, of unfair accounting for the expenses of their shows, including charging to the partnership the cost of a new carpet for the Savoy Theatre.

Increasingly viewing his work with Gilbert as unimportant, beneath his skills, and repetitious, Sullivan had intended to resign from the partnership with Gilbert and Richard D ' Oyly Carte after Iolanthe, but after a recent financial loss, he concluded that his financial needs required him to continue writing Savoy operas.

Therefore, in February 1883, with Iolanthe still playing strongly at the Savoy Theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan signed a new five-year partnership agreement to create new operas for Carte upon six months ' notice.

The two men formed a partnership and in 1890 accepted an invitation from Richard D ' Oyly Carte to transfer to his new Savoy Hotel in London, together with the third member of their team, the maître d ' hôtel, Louis Echenard.

In April 1890, during the run of The Gondoliers, Gilbert discovered that maintenance expenses for the theatre, including a new £ 500 carpet for the front lobby of the theatre, were being charged to the partnership instead of borne by Carte.

During the production of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1889 comic opera, The Gondoliers, Gilbert became embroiled in a legal dispute with producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte over the cost of a new carpet for the Savoy Theatre and, more generally, over the accounting for expenses of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership.

Sullivan sided with Carte ( who was about to produce Sullivan's grand opera, Ivanhoe ), and the partnership disbanded.

When the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership collapsed after the production of The Gondoliers in 1889, impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte struggled to find successful new works to present at the Savoy Theatre.

In America in the 20th century, it was played on Broadway by various companies in 1915, 1933, 1935 and 1944, in addition to D ' Oyly Carte tours, and in other New York theatres by the American Savoyards, the Light Opera of Manhattan, Bronx Opera and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, among others.

However, on several occasions during the 1880s the relationship among Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte had been strained.

Carte and Lenoir married in 1888, three years after the death of his first wife.

Shortly thereafter, Carte sent three touring companies around the United States East Coast and Midwest, playing Pinafore alongside Pirates.

At least one D ' Oyly Carte company, and sometimes as many as three, played Pinafore under Carte's aegis every year between 1878 and 1888, including its first London revival in 1887.

In the winter of 1940 – 41, the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company's scenery and costumes for Pinafore and three other operas were destroyed by German bombs during World War II.

The song is included in the 1924 D ' Oyly Carte recording, but on none of the three recordings the Company made after that ( 1932, 1955, 1965 ).

After the production of Thespis, Gilbert and Sullivan went their separate ways, reuniting three years later, with Richard D ' Oyly Carte as their manager, to produce Trial by Jury in 1875.

There have been only two cartoons in which all three characters have appeared together: Gooney's Goofy Landings ( where Chilly and Maxie try to perfect Gooney's landings ) and Airlift a la Carte ( where Chilly, Maxie, and Gooney go to the store owned by Smedley ).

Its first London revival was in 1900, making it the last of the revivals for which all three partners ( Gilbert, Sullivan, and D ' Oyly Carte ) were alive.

Patience had its final D ' Oyly Carte performances in April 1979 and was left out of the company's last three seasons of touring.