The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was a professional British light opera company that, from the 1870s until 1982, staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes tour
Theatre poster for The Mikado
Helen Lenoir, later Helen Carte
Scene from 1886 Savoy Theatre souvenir programme
Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, o
W. S. Gilbert
One of Gilbert's illustrations for his Bab Ballad "Gentle Alice Brown"
Poster for Ages Ago, during a rehearsal for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan