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A BRITISH OPERA COMPANY REBORN
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LONDON - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company has been revived and is
once again ready for the road with the rollicking songs of Gilbert
and Sullivan that made it famous a century ago.
The company went out singing on Feb. 27, 1982, with a
performance of "H.M.S. Pinafore" at London's Adelphi Theater.
Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, the founder's granddaughter, was
in that audience. She died in 1985, and her will left the bulk of
her $7.8 million estate to trustees who had run the compa...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Gilbert and Offenbach. (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's 1993 season)
The Economist (US)
; FOR good or ill, D'Oyly Carte has meant Gilbert and Sullivan for well over a century. In 1875 Richard D'Oyly Carte, an impresario, brought the immortal pair together and established an opera company to present the authorised versions of their works. In the end, that historic connection almost
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D'Oyly Carte may find home on Tyne
The Independent - London
; COLIN BROWN Chief Political Correspondent Gilbert and Sullivan may soon be added to coal, the MetroCentre, five bridges over the Tyne, and Kevin Keegan's United on the list of things that Newcastle is famous for. D'Oyly Carte, the world- famous operatic company dedicated to the popular work of
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D'Oyly Carte's Comic Opera Encore
The Washington Post
; The original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company closed in 1982, but it wasn't long before a bequest and a gift got the famed Gilbert and Sullivan troupe back on the boards. But if this is the beginning of one era, it is also the end of another, according to Michael Bishop, who heads the new D'Oyly Carte
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Gilbert and Sullivan are on my little list, and they never will be missed MPs may lament the loss of subsidy for the D'Oyly Carte Opera, but not David Aaronovitch
The Independent - London
; THE MPs were of all parties and of one mind. On Wednesday morning, led by Mr Martin Bell, they rode eloquently and unanimously to the aid of an imperilled part of contemporary British society. The Totnes Tory, Mr Anthony Steen, spoke of a "unique British institution on the point of being closed".
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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D'Oyly Carte explores a future in the Capital.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; The troubled D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is joining forces with London impresario Mr Raymond Gubbay to stage Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado at the Royal Festival Hall for a short season of eight performances from August 31. Negotiations are taking place between the two organisations to
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Mass exoduses: The response of the United States
The International Migration Review
; The focus of this article is on mass immigration to the United States and the country's response to various groups of immigrants. After presenting historical background dating back to the pre-Civil War era, attention is given to the Cuban and Haitian mass movements of recent years and to the
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Chorus of disapproval at threat to the D'Oyly Carte.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Peers and MPs from all parties queued up yesterday to back Mr Martin Bell's fight to save the D'Oyly Carte opera company. In a display of unity rarely seen across all parties in both the Commons and the Lords, the snobbery of Britain's arts elite was condemned during three hours of debate in
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Gilbert and Sullivan, take 2. (the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company since the death of Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte)
The Economist (US)
; AT THE end of April the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, premier purveyors for over a century of the works of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, came back to life. Aficionados have welcomed it with both joy and apprehension. Since the troupe's execution in 1982, and the subsequent death of Dame Bridget
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D'Oyly Carte heads on out; The D'Oyly Carte opera company will finally leave the West Midlands for London next month. Chris Gray looks back at its rocky residency.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; When the D'Oyly Carte's latest production of The Mikado opens next week the new lyrics attacking the art establishment will be a last show of defiance about its treatment in the Midlands. Ever since the company arrived in Birmingham in 1991 it fought a doomed battle against the cultural elite in
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D'Oyly Carte cancels tour in cash crisis
The Independent - London
; The Gilbert and Sullivan company, D'Oyly Carte, has had to cancel its autumn national tour because of a lack of funds. Its contract with Birmingham City Council, which provided funding and rehearsal space, expired at the end of 1995. Negotiations have been taking place with a Newcastle businessman
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