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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.
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.
* Murray, Gilbert, A History of Ancient Greek Literature, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897.
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.
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.
He founded the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company and built the state-of-the-art Savoy Theatre to host the Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
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.
During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas were being written, Richard D ' Oyly Carte also produced operas and plays by other writing teams, as well as other works to fill the Savoy Theatre in between new operas.
However, Gilbert, Sullivan, and their producer, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, failed in their efforts over the next decade to control the American performance copyrights over their operas.
After the expiration of the copyright on Gilbert and Sullivan works in 1961, and especially since the Sadler's Wells production and recording, various directors have experimented with restoring some or all of the cut material in place of the 1920s D ' Oyly Carte version.
In 1875, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, who was then managing the Royalty Theatre for Selina Dolaro, brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to write their second show, a one-act opera entitled Trial by Jury.
Gilbert directed all the revivals during his lifetime, and after his death, the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company had exclusive performing rights to the Savoy operas until 1962.
The D ' Oyly Carte company performed Pinafore before Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 16 June 1977, during the queen's Silver Jubilee year, the first royal command performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera since 1891.
A lifelong Gilbert and Sullivan fan, in 1975, Wilson joined the Board of Trustees of the D ' Oyly Carte Trust at the invitation of Sir Hugh Wontner, who was then the Lord Mayor of London.
Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, various railroad stations ( including the New Haven Union Station ), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C .. His reputation declined among some professionals during the age of Modernism, but he was on the design committee that guided and eventually approved the modernist design of Manhattan's groundbreaking Rockefeller Center: when considering Gilbert's body of works as whole, it is more eclectic than many critics admit.
* Billy Gilbert as Professor Theodore Von Schwarzenhoffen, M. D., A. D., D. D. S., F. L. D., F. F. F and F.
This lithograph of Little Turtle is reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British Burning of Washington | burned Washington, D. C. in 1814.
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.
Patience ( 1881 ) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true " Savoy Opera ", although the term " Savoy Opera " has, for over a century, included the complete set of thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D ' Oyly Carte:
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.

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This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.
The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.
The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.
A third concept was proposed in 1923 by Gilbert N. Lewis which includes reactions with acid-base characteristics that do not involve a proton transfer.
Chemical bonds between atoms were now explained, by Gilbert Newton Lewis in 1916, as the interactions between their constituent electrons.
* 1861 First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.
* 1961 Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler ( d. 1995 )
He likely would have studied under masters such as Peter Abelard, Gilbert of Poitiers and Thierry of Chartres.
In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.
* 1900 Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher ( d. 1976 )
* 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.
In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
* 2000 Gilbert Parkhouse, English cricketer ( b. 1925 )
A full version was presented at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1974, with Gilbert Price as Jimmy and Stephanie Cotsirilos as Jenny.
He was a younger son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, brother of Gilbert Arthur à Beckett and educated at Felsted School.
A childhood friend ( and distant relative ) of W. S. Gilbert, Beckett briefly feuded with Gilbert in 1869, but the two patched up the friendship, and Gilbert even later collaborated on projects with Beckett's brother.

Gilbert and 1881
Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").
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.
The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.
With profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and his concert and lecture agency, he bought property along the Strand in 1880 with frontage onto the Thames Embankment, where he built the Savoy Theatre in 1881.
The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D ' Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, which became known as the Savoy Operas as a result.
The work that opened the new theatre was Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience, which been running since April 1881 at the smaller Opera Comique.
i., ii., ( 6 vols., 1867 1873 ); Donald Gregory, History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland 1493-1625 ( London, 1881 ); John Thomas Gilbert, History of the Viceroys of Ireland ( Dublin, 1865 ).
* Willy Gilbert ( 1881 1956 ), Norwegian sailor
Joseph Oswald Mauborgne ( February 26, 1881 June 7, 1971 ) co-invented the one-time pad with Gilbert Vernam of Bell Labs.
Two more Gilbert and Sullivan successes followed, now produced by the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company: The Pirates of Penzance ( 1880 ) and, finally, Patience ( 1881 ), which was later transferred to Carte's larger new theatre, the Savoy Theatre.
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart GCB, GCMG, PC, MVO ( 25 June 1881 14 February 1957 ) was a senior British diplomat in the period before and during the Second World War.
Josiah Gilbert Holland ( July 24, 1819 October 12, 1881 ) was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb.
Residents in more recent times have included the hydrographer, Sir Edmund Irving ( 1910 1990 ), artists Spencer Gore ( 1878 1914 ) and Graham Sutherland ( 1903 1980 ), the author, Michael Gilbert ( 1912 2006 ), the psychic researcher, Harry Price ( 1881 1948 ), Hughie Green ( 1920 1997 ), the entertainer, Sir Roger de Grey ( 1918 1995 ), President of the Royal Academy, as well as Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun ; current residents include Sir Michael Gambon, as well as Donald Adamson, the author and historian, Dr John Physick CBE FSA and Major Sir Richard Gethin, Bt who lives at Sole Street.
He is also credited with writing the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan's 1881 opera, Patience.
The Criterion Theatre opened on Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1874, and in 1881, two more houses appeared: the Savoy Theatre in The Strand, built by Richard D ' Oyly Carte specifically to showcase the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, opened on 10 October ( the first theatre to be lit by cooler, cleaner electric lights ), and five days later the Comedy Theatre opened as the Royal Comedy Theatre on Panton Street in Leicester Square.
Pinafore, 1878, m Arthur Sullivan, lb W. S. Gilbert ( 571 in London ) ( first G & S smash hit and second longest-running piece of musical theatre in history until it was edged out by Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience in 1881.
" Nevertheless, Gilbert was back at the theatre in 1877 with his farce, On Bail ( a revised version of his 1874 work, Committed for Trial ); in 1881, with another farce, Foggerty's Fairy ; and in 1892, with a comic opera, Haste to the Wedding, with music by George Grossmith ( an operatic version of Gilbert's 1873 play, The Wedding March ).
Sothern became popular with Robertson's crowd, including with the Haymarket's manager, John Baldwin Buckstone, actor J. L. Toole, and dramatists Byron and W. S. Gilbert, who later wrote three plays for him, Dan ' l Druce, Blacksmith ( 1876 ), The Ne ' er-do-Weel ( 1878 ), and Foggerty's Fairy ( 1881 ).
Here he produced a long succession of plays, in which he took the leading part, notably a number of old English comedies, and in such modern plays as The Liars, The Case of Rebellious Susan and others by Henry Arthur Jones and Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert ( 1881 ); and he became famous for his acting in David Garrick.

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