The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very success
From Act I of the 1907 D'Oyly Carte production at the Savoy Theatre
Barrington and Pounds as Giuseppe and Marco
The gavotte scene: Circa 1890 advertisement for a touring company of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
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