To try to counter this copyright piracy and make some money from the popularity of their opera in America, Carte travelled to New York with the authors and the company to present an " authentic " production of Pinafore there, beginning in December 1879, as well as American tours.

Having seen the opulence of American hotels in his many visits to the U. S., Carte decided to build the first luxury hotel in Britain to attract foreign clientele as well as British tourists who had travelled to London for theatre and sightseeing.

In 1879, he travelled with Gilbert, Sullivan, and Carte to America, where he acted as conductor for Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, with Carte's first American touring company.

Beginning with Pinafore, Carte licensed the J. C. Williamson company to produce the works in Australia and New Zealand.

In an effort to head off unauthorised American productions of their next opera, The Pirates of Penzance, Carte and his partners opened it in New York on 31 December 1879, prior to its 1880 London premiere.

As an example of their level of activity, an 1881 souvenir programme commemorating the 250th performance of Patience in London and its 100th performance in New York states that, in addition to these two productions of Patience, Carte was simultaneously producing many other projects.

Songs sent from New York to the D ' Oyly Carte touring company in England for the Paignton premiere were then altered or omitted during Broadway rehearsals.

A production in New York with D ' Oyly Carte personnel ran for 53 performances.

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.

Among the professional repertory companies continuing to present Pinafore regularly in the U. S. are Opera a la Carte, based in California, Ohio Light Opera and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, which tours the opera annually and often includes it in its New York seasons.

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.

There was also a D ' Oyly Carte production in New York in 1894, performances in the D ' Oyly Carte South African tour of 1902-03, and a J. C. Williamson production in Australia and New Zealand in 1905, managed by Henry Bracy.

" Carte came to New York to investigate and closed the production on 13 February.

A May 27, 1926 advertisement in The New York Times for " The Famous Old Sea Grill Lobster and Chop House " at 141 West 45th Street promises " A La Carte All Hours ", " Moderate Prices ", and " Blue Plate Specials ".

1921 – 22 D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company | D ' Oyly Carte season: RuddigoreThe Prince's was the last theatre to be built in Shaftesbury Avenue, and is located near New Oxford Street, perhaps explaining the many gaps between performances in its early years.

They first appeared in William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, the New York Journal on September 22, 1901 in a strip titled: " Alphonse a la Carte and His Friend Gaston de Table d ' Hote ".

The American edition ( New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 275 pp. ) is somewhat more candid and expansive in dealing with D ' Oyly Carte personalities and situations than its British counterpart ( London, Max Reinhardt, 210 pp .).

Even after the initial production of Trial by Jury, however, Carte continued to produce continental operetta, touring in the summer of 1876 with a repertoire consisting of English adaptations of French opera bouffe ( Offenbach ’ s La Périchole, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot and Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d ' argent ), paired with two one-act English after-pieces ( Happy Hampstead and Trial by Jury ).

A particularly hot summer in London did not help ticket sales for Princess Ida and forced Carte to close the theatre during the heat of August.

In the midst of the unusually hot summer of 1884, Richard D ' Oyly Carte closed the Savoy Theatre for a month, starting in mid-August.

After leaving the D ' Oyly Carte company, Green appeared as George Grossmith in the film The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan ( filmed in the summer of 1952, but released in 1953 ).

In the beginning of summer 1942, another network called Carte, which was directly linked to the British Special Operations Executive and therefore better armed at that time than the other French networks in the free zone, took over two of Combat's groups on the Côte d ' Azur.

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.

On 31 July 1879, the last day of their agreement with Carte, the directors of the Comedy Opera Company attempted to repossess the Pinafore set by force during a performance, causing a celebrated fracas.

From 1 August 1879, the new company, later called the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, became the sole authorised producer of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Carte put the matter beyond doubt by taking a six-month personal lease of the theatre beginning on 1 February 1879, the date of its re-opening, when Pinafore resumed.

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.

Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte met by 24 April 1879 to make plans for a production of Pinafore in America.

The unauthorised juvenile productions of Pinafore were so popular that Carte mounted his own children's version, played at matinees at the Opera Comique beginning on 16 December 1879.

He soon made arrangements with D ' Oyly Carte to present the opera's first authorised production in Australia, opening on 15 November 1879 at the Theatre Royal, Sydney.

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.

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.

In 1879, Sullivan, Gilbert and Carte were in the midst of a legal battle with the former directors of the Comedy Opera Company, which had produced H. M. S.

Encouraged by the success of Trial by Jury, Carte made attempts in 1875 – 76 to raise money for either a revival of Thespis or a new piece.

As an example of viral licensing outside software, after it was revealed that French author Michel Houellebecq plagiarized sections of Wikipedia articles in his novel La Carte et Le Territoire, some commentators said that this automatically made his entire book licensed under the ShareAlike license.

When it received its first professional revival in December 1920 in Glasgow – and then in London, in October 1921 – the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company made a number of further cuts and changes that were incorporated in scores and used in subsequent D ' Oyly Carte productions and recordings.

The gold penny was not popular, as Carte in his history of England says that the citizens of London made a representation against them on 24 November 1257, and that " the King was so willing to oblige them, that he published a proclamation, declaring that nobody was obliged to take it ( the gold penny ), and whoever did, might bring it to his exchange, and receive there the value at which it had been made current, a halfpenny on being deducted, probably for the coinage ".

* Napoleon Bonaparte, " Thomas Carte ," Napoleon ’ s Notes on English History made on the Eve of the French Revolution, illustrated from Contemporary Historians and referenced from the findings of Later Research by Henry Foljambe Hall.

Sullivan sided with Carte ( Carte was then building a new theatre specifically to produce Sullivan ’ s serious opera, Ivanhoe ) and was made a defendant in the case, swearing to an affidavit that turned out to be in error.

The D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, which had exclusive rights to the opera in Britain, dropped The Sorcerer in 1901, and its principal repertory company did not play the piece again until 1916, after which it made its first professional London appearance in over twenty years in 1919.

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 ).

From 1924 to 1933, he made the following recordings with D ' Oyly Carte: 1924 Ruddigore ( Robin Oakapple ); 1927 Gondoliers ( Giuseppe ); 1926 Mikado ( Pish-Tush ); 1927 Trial ( Usher ); 1929 Pirates ( Major-General ) 1928 Yeomen ( Jack Point ); 1929 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ); 1930 Patience ( Bunthorne ); 1930 H. M. S.

About 1860: “ Carte de visite ” of Gutzkow, No. “ 1170 ” probably made by an anonymous copyist

In later years he made numerous expeditions into Spain, and his observations were embodied in Carte geologique de l ' Espagne et du Portugal ( 1864 ), prepared in association with Edouard Collomb.

On the same night, Francis Cammaerts arrived to take Peter Churchill's place and subsequently made a much more realistic appraisal of Carte.

James II's papers identified the father as " E. Carlingson " ( according to the copy made by Thomas Carte around 1740 ) or " the Earl of Carlington " ( in the copy by James Macpherson in the 1770s, the independence of which is unclear ).

Mr. and Mrs. Carte hired a new soprano, the Hungarian Ilka Palmay, who had recently arrived in England and quickly made a favourable impression on London audiences and critics with her charming personality.

Samuel Carte, several original manuscripts, and some engraved plates, he presented to John Nichols, who made use of them in his work Leicestershire.

My views made no impression on Miss Carte, but time was to prove that I was right.

In addition to his D ' Oyly Carte recordings, Green made four additional Gilbert and Sullivan recordings: Martyn Green's Gilbert & Sullivan ( Columbia, 1953 ), The Mikado ( Allegro-Royale, 1954 ), Martyn Green Sings the Gilbert & Sullivan Song Book ( MGM, 1962 ), and The Pirates of Penzance ( RCA-Victor, 1966 ).

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