Lesser taboo terms include " pony and trap " for " crap " ( as in defecate, but often used to denote nonsense or low quality ); to blow a raspberry ( rude sound of derision ) from raspberry tart for " fart "; " D ' Oyly Carte " for " fart "; " Jimmy Riddle " for " piddle " ( as in urinate ), " J. Arthur Rank " ( a film mogul ), or " ham shank " for " wank ", " Bristol Cities " ( contracted to ' Bristols ') for " titties ", etc.

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.

In Pinafore, Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte used several of the principal cast members that they had assembled for The Sorcerer.

Carte Vitale, the smart card used for health insurance in France

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.

Francis Suttill had been given a list of contacts provided by Carte, which he used.

* Carte orange similar to Travelcard, used in Île de France

Alexander von Humboldt used the maps in his work Carte generale ... de la Nouvelle Espagne, ( Paris, 1804 ).

Helen D ' Oyly Carte wrote that Gilbert had addressed Carte " in a way that I should not have thought you would have used to an offending menial.

When using a Carte Bleue at a French merchant, the PIN of the card must be used, and a microchip on the card verifies and authenticates the transaction.

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.

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.

Built by impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan operas, the hotel opened on 6 August 1889.

Nevertheless, Carte and his syndicate were sufficiently encouraged to commission another full-length opera from the team.

Sullivan and Gilbert and their producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte themselves call their joint works comic operas to distinguish this family-friendly fare from the risqué French operettas of the 1850s and 1860s.

Rising from humble beginnings, Carte built two of London's theatres and a hotel empire, while also establishing an opera company that ran continuously for over a hundred years and a management agency representing some of the most important artists of the day.

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.

Over 150 unauthorised productions sprang up in America alone, but because American law then offered no copyright protection to foreigners, Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan were not able to demand royalties from, or to control the artistic content of, these productions.

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.

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.

The revival was a success, and from that point on, Ruddigore was a permanent fixture in the D ' Oyly Carte repertory.

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.

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.

It was then included in the D ' Oyly Carte repertory in every season from then on, until the company's closure in 1982.

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.

Gilbert, Sullivan, Carte and other Victorian era British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind " comic operas " to distinguish their content and style from that of the often risqué continental European operettas that they wished to displace.

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.

The D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company did not play in the theatre from 1909 until 1929, instead touring throughout Britain and playing London seasons in other theatres, and other works held the stage of the Savoy.

Scene from The Yeomen of the Guard D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company 1906 Revival

The Act II duet for Sergeant Meryll and Dame Carruthers, " Rapture, rapture ", was often cut in 20th-century D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company performances, apparently because it was thought to detract from the serious tone of the work.

The first English provincial tour opened in 1888, and from then on it was a fixture in the D ' Oyly Carte repertory, with at least one official touring company playing it somewhere in almost every season until the company's closure in 1982.

* June-Sir Henry Lytton retires from the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration.

He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works ( which came to be known as the Savoy Operas ) and founded the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted Gilbert and Sullivan's works for over a century.

Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.

Carte proposed a revival of Thespis for the 1875 Christmas season, which Gilbert and Sullivan would have revised, but he was unable to obtain financing for the project.

In early 1876, Carte requested that Gilbert and Sullivan create another one-act opera on the theme of burglars, but this was never completed.

This event cleared the way for Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan to form the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, which then produced all of their succeeding operas.

Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte tried for many years to control the American performance copyrights over their operas, without success.

But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months ' notice.

Sullivan had been satisfied with the libretto, but two months after Ida opened, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

In 1875, however, producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury, which became a surprise hit.

Remembering Thespis, Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan, and the result was the one-act comic opera Trial by Jury.

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.

He founded the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company and built the state-of-the-art Savoy Theatre to host the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

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.

This allowed Carte to lease the Opera Comique and to give Gilbert and Sullivan firm terms for a new opera.

Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte were able to select their own cast, instead of using the players under contract to the theatre where the work was produced, as had been the case with their earlier works.

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.

Legal action over the ownership of the rights ended in victory for Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan.

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 had been planning to build a new theatre for several years to promote English comic opera and, in particular, the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.