Richard D'Oyly Carte
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Richard D'Oyly Carte was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer, and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era. He built two of London's theatres and a hotel empire, while
Programme for Trial by Jury, 1875
Scene from H.M.S. Pinafore
Savoy Theatre, 1881
Planter in the Embankment Gardens behind the Savoy Hotel
Rupert D'Oyly Carte
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Rupert D'Oyly Carte was an English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario, best known as proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from 1913 to 1948.
Richard D'Oyly Carte
…series of works whose success was unprecedented in the history of musical theatre. His opera company, later run by his widow Helen and then by his son, Rupert, and granddaughter, Bridget, promoted those works for more than a century, and they are still performed regularly today. Carte was born at his parents…
Souvenir programme cover: 1919–20 season