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.

The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado ( 1885 ), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting.

The only exceptions were ballad operas, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ), musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, notably the Savoy Operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, all of which types of musical entertainments frequently spoofed operatic conventions.

With W. S. Gilbert writing the libretti and Sullivan composing the music, the pair produced 14 comic operas, which were later called Savoy Operas.

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.

The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premiered at the Savoy, and all of their operas came to be known as Savoy Operas.

It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan.

This attention to detail was typical of Gilbert's stage management and would be repeated in all of his Savoy Operas.

The great bulk of the non-G & S Savoy Operas either failed to achieve a foothold in the standard repertory, or have faded over the years, leaving the term " Savoy Opera " as practically synonymous with Gilbert and Sullivan.

Most of the published literature on Gilbert and Sullivan since that time refers to these works as " Savoy Operas ", " comic operas ", or both.

This is the point that Cyril Rollins and R. John Witts adopt as the end of the Savoy Operas.

The contemporary press referred to these works as " Savoy Operas ", and S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald regarded Workman's pieces as the last Savoy Operas.

" However, Rollins & Witts include it in their compendium of the Savoy Operas, as does Geoffrey Smith.

The following table shows all of the full-length operas that could be considered " Savoy Operas " under any of the definitions mentioned above.

Curtain-raisers and afterpieces that played with the Savoy Operas are included in the next table below.

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 Savoy Operas of the 1890s, however, were far less successful than those of the Gilbert and Sullivan heyday.

As Frankie Manning put it, " Everyone at the Savoy had their style.

" And there was no specific " Savoy style " of Lindy Hopping.

Savoy style Lindy Hop was most frequently associated with living dancers from the 1930s such as Frankie Manning, and with the Swedish dance troupe The Rhythm Hot Shots ( now replaced by the Harlem Hot Shots ).

In describing Savoy style Lindy Hop, observers note that the follower is led out of the basic Swingout sideways as a default.

Savoy style is also said to be characterized by a pronounced downwards ' bounce ', which is again something of a misnomer, as different dancers employed varying degrees and types of ' bounce ', and observers of Frankie Manning have noted changes in his own dancing style in this respect the years.

One of the clearest distinctions between Hollywood and Smooth style Lindy Hop and Savoy style Lindy Hop is the open ' connection ' and relative freedom of the follower to improvise within the structure of the Swingout in particular.

In maintaining the Savoy tradition of comic opera, German was composing a style of piece for which public taste had dwindled as fashions in musical theatre had changed with the new century.

In February 1535 — 1536 new style — it passed to France, during a full-scale French invasion of Savoy, but was restored to Duke Philibert Emmanuel in 1559, when he married Henri II's sister Marguerite.

In the north of Italy, the monarchs from the House of Savoy were particularly receptive to the new style.

He attributes much of his style to songs he enjoyed when first learning the guitar, such as The Beatles ' " Savoy Truffle ", where " George Harrison played that bent note that I fell in love with and later milked it for all it was worth.

* Audio clip of Marc Savoy and Michael Doucet performing a traditional Cajun song, One-Step De Chameau, in traditional Cajun style.

* Savoy opera, meaning comic opera in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, as performed at the Savoy Theatre until about 1903

The next year, 1611, he was hired by the Duke of Savoy to direct music in Turin, where he remained until 1623 ; these were the most productive years of his life, during which he amalgamated the disparate types of music he had heard and absorbed during the years 1600-1610 into a unified style.

Children of the Savoy kings and crown princes of Italy were entitled to the treatment of Royal Highness, but more remote descendants in the male-line were Serene Highnesses by right ( although often the style of Royal Highness was granted to them ad personam, e. g. the Dukes of Aosta, Dukes of Genoa.

The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premièred at the Savoy: Iolanthe ( 1882 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ), The Mikado ( 1885 ), Ruddigore ( 1887 ), The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ) The Gondoliers ( 1889 ), Utopia, Limited ( 1893 ), and The Grand Duke ( 1896 ), and the term Savoy Opera has come to be associated with all their joint works.

He created all nine of the lead comic baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous Savoy Operas in London from 1877 to 1889, including the pompous First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter, in H. M. S.

Grossmith also wrote, composed, and performed in several one-man drawing room sketches, short comic operas or monologues that were given at the Opera Comique or the Savoy Theatre in place of the companion pieces when shorter matinee programmes were playing.

… A more complete success has never been achieved in comic opera, even at the Savoy.

He is also noted for illustrating the Lord Horror comic book written by David Britton, also published by Savoy Books.

" This even applied to his one excursion into comic opera, His Majesty, a piece in the Gilbert and Sullivan vein, with a libretto by F. C. Burnand and R. C. Lehmann and additional lyrics by Adrian Ross, presented at the Savoy Theatre in 1897.

Examples include Viennese operetta, German singspiel, Spanish zarzuela, Russian comic opera, English ballad opera, and Savoy Opera.

Gilbert and Sullivan were commissioned to write a new comic opera, The Sorcerer, starting the series that came to be known as the Savoy Operas ( named for the Savoy Theatre, which Carte later built for these works ) that included H. M. S.

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.

Meanwhile, Sullivan had written a comic opera for the Savoy Theatre with F. C. Burnand, The Chieftain, but that had closed in March 1895.

He tried his hand as a lyricist in such works as His Majesty, a comic opera in the Gilbert and Sullivan vein, with music by Alexander Mackenzie, a libretto by F. C. Burnand and additional lyrics by Adrian Ross, presented at the Savoy Theatre in 1897.

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.