However, as part of its licensing restrictions, it could not broadcast news programmes, which were still the preserve of the SABC, although M-Net started broadcasting a current affairs programme " Carte Blanche " in 1988.

Pratt started his career in the chorus of the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1945, moving up to small roles and then understudying Martyn Green, the principal comedian.

Carte Bleue started in 1967, associating six French banks ( BNP, CCF, Crédit du Nord, CIC, Crédit Lyonnais, and Société Générale.

Grossmith left the D ' Oyly Carte company near the end of the original run of The Yeomen of the Guard on 17 August 1889 and resumed his career entertaining at the piano, which he continued to do for more than 15 years afterwards.

After he left the D ' Oyly Carte organisation in 1979, Reed continued to perform in, and direct, Gilbert and Sullivan productions for the rest of his career, also occasionally appearing in other theatre.

Wodehouse said that he based Psmith on Rupert D ' Oyly Carte ( 1876 – 1948 ), the son of the Gilbert and Sullivan impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte, as he put it " the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a silver plate with watercress around it ".

He toured with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company in such productions as The Emerald Isle ( 1901 ) and The Talk of the Town ( 1905 ) before disarming vocal problems set in and he was forced to abandon this career path.

During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

His cultured mother exposed her family to art, music and poetry, and young Carte studied the violin and then the flute at an early age.

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall ( 1868 ); Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871 ; and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.

Carte knew that Gilbert had worked with Sullivan to create Thespis in 1871, and he now suggested that Sullivan could write the music for Trial by Jury.

Because Gilbert and Sullivan shared his vision of increasing the quality and respectability of English musical theatre, and so broadening its audience through the promotion of well-crafted English light operas, Carte gave them wider authority as director and music director than was customary at that time.

After promotional efforts by Carte and Sullivan, who included some of the Pinafore music in several promenade concerts at Covent Garden, Pinafore became a hit.

David Russell Hulme, editor of the Oxford University Press 2000 scholarly edition of the score, has attributed the cuts and other changes to the music principally to Harry Norris, musical director of the D ' Oyly Carte at the time of the Glasgow revival, and the modifications to the opera's orchestration, as well as the new overture, to Geoffrey Toye.

Sullivan, as had been arranged with Carte and Gilbert, gave notice to the partners of the Comedy Opera Company in early July 1879 that he, Gilbert and Carte would not be renewing the contract to produce Pinafore with them and that he would be withdrawing his music from the Comedy Opera Company on 31 July.

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.

Counting the pieces that Mrs. D ' Oyly Carte and the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company produced, the last Savoy Opera was A Princess of Kensington ( music by Edward German, libretto by Basil Hood ), which ran for four months in early 1903.

The 1993 D ' Oyly Carte recording includes all the cut music and both versions of " Is life a boon?

By then, Grossmith had become friendly with many in the music and theatre establishments, including Arthur Sullivan and impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte ; and Grossmith had the opportunity to perform in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury and other Sullivan works at charity benefits.

Though German had little experience with opera or choral music, Richard D ' Oyly Carte invited him to finish Arthur Sullivan's The Emerald Isle for the Savoy Theatre after Sullivan's death in 1900.

Sullivan, reflecting on this, his own precarious health, and his desire to devote himself to more serious music, informed Richard D ' Oyly Carte on 29 January 1884 that he had determined " not to write any more ' Savoy ' pieces.

The first home-grown production at the theatre was a musical play in 1871, Marie, with music by Richard D ' Oyly Carte and a libretto by E. Spencer Mott.

* " Carte Blanche " ( group ), a French electronic music group with DJ Mehdi and Riton

After many failed attempts by Carte and his wife, Gilbert and Sullivan reunited through the efforts of Tom Chappell, who published the sheet music to their operas.

Along with " Don't Go Breaking My Heart ", it is credited to Ann Orson / Carte Blanche ( An horse and cart, Blanche ) a moniker John devised when composing a song ( music and lyrics ) on his own.

Among the music videos he directed were those of French-Algerian band Carte de Séjour, whose lead singer Rachid Taha is one of the most famous rock-ethnic musicians in France today.

Parepa died in January 1874, however, and the project was dropped ( until, in 1875, a competing manager, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, produced Trial by Jury with music by Arthur Sullivan ).

Rosa's place in English music was indicated by the number of leading musicians who attended his funeral, including Sullivan, Stanford, Mackenzie and George Grove, together with Richard D ' Oyly Carte, George Edwardes and Augustus Harris.

In 1883, Cellier left the D ' Oyly Carte company, but he was back for brief periods as music director with D ' Oyly Carte's touring companies for Princess Ida ( 1884 ) and The Mikado ( 1885 ).

He has strong interests in music, including the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and is the co-author ( with Frederic Lloyd ) of Gilbert and Sullivan: The Official D ' Oyly Carte Picture History.

Carte believed that a school of wholesome, well-crafted, family-friendly, English comic opera could be as popular as the risqué French works dominating the London musical stage in the 1870s.

" The Observer reported, " Mr D ' Oyly Carte is not only a skilful manager, but a trained musician, and he appears to have grasped the fact that the public are beginning to become weary of what is known as a genuine opera bouffe, and are ready to welcome a musical entertainment of a higher order, such as a musician might produce with satisfaction ".

Carte later said it was " the scheme of my life " to found a school of high-quality, family-friendly English comic opera, in contrast to the bawdy burlesques and adaptations of French operettas that dominated the London musical stage at that time.

Carte acted as the musical director of this travelling company that included W. H.

* Geoffrey Toye, the D ' Oyly Carte musical director for the first London revival in 1921, supplied a new overture to replace the original overture arranged by Hamilton Clarke.

Isabel Jay ( October 17, 1879 – February 26, 1927 ) was an English opera singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company and in musical comedies.

He also directed several musical and shows, including the nude revue Carte Blanche.

The changes were made by D ' Oyly Carte musical director Harry Norris.

In December 1877 Cellier joined the D ' Oyly Carte company as musical director at the Opera Comique in London.

In 1882, a 33 cm astrographic lens was constructed, an instrument that catalysed what proved to be the over-ambitious, international Carte du Ciel project.

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.

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.

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.

Carte persuaded the author and composer that a business partnership among the three would be to their advantage, and they hatched a plan to separate themselves from the directors of the Comedy Opera Company.

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.