D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Representing the vision of British impresario, Richard D'oyly Carte (1844-1901), the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was launched after Carte split from the Comedy Opera Company in July 1879. In the more than one hundred and twenty years since, the group has continued to build on its standing among the greatest interpreters of operettas by W.s. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Managed by Carte until his death in 1901, his widow and long-time assistant, Helen Lenoir assumed leadership until hew own passing in 1913.



Although financial difficulties caused it to close in 1982, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was reorganized after inheriting one million pounds, from Dame Bridget, three years later. Resuming their schedule with national-touring productions of Iolanthe and The Yeomen Of The Guard in 1988, they've remained active, presenting new productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates Of Penzance, The Mikado, Trial By Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore and The Gondolas. Presenting their first non-Gilbert and Sullivan show in 1993, they've gone on to present Jacque Offenbach's , Orpheus In The Underworld and La Vie Parisienne, Johann Strauss's Die Fladermaus and Franz Lehar's The Count of Luxembourg.

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