D'Oyly Carte: Cox and Box (F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan)
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The material comprises: Sullivan's autograph full score (photostat copy); annotated vocal scores; parts for Song No. 2 and for the Finale; and Francis J. Buckley's arrangement of the Overture for piano duet (autograph manuscript). Cox and Box received its first performance in private on 16 May ...
D'Oyly Carte: The Outpost (Albert O'Donnell Bartholeyns and Hamilton Clarke)
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Piano vocal scores in copy manuscript, typed libretti, and copy manuscript parts. First performed at the Savoy Theatre from 2 July 1900 to 3 November 1900 as a companion piece to The Pirates of Penzance, and also played from 10 November 1900 to 7 December 1900 as a companion piece to Patience. ...
Full score and parts in copy manuscript for individual songs, including parts for 'The Bird that Came in Spring' by Julius Benedict (as performed by Pauline Rita). First performed in English translation by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Opéra Comique, London, October 1874.
D'Oyly Carte: The Mountebanks (W. S. Gilbert and Alfred Cellier)
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Annotated piano-vocal score (Chappell & Co, 1892), and parts in copy manuscript. First produced at the Lyric Theatre, London, 4 January 1892, for a run of 229 performances.
D'Oyly Carte: His Excellency (W. S. Gilbert and F. Osmond Carr)
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Annotated piano-vocal / conductor score (Chappell & Co, 1894), and parts in copy manuscript. First performed in 1894 at the Lyric Theatre, London, running for 162 performances.
D'Oyly Carte: Orpheus in the Underworld (Jacques Offenbach, English libretto by Jeremy Sams)
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The first performance of Offenbach's two-act, opéra bouffe was at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris on 21 October 1858. It ran for 228 performances. An adaptation by J. R. Planché played for 76 performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, beginning 26 December 1865. The D'Oyly Cart...
D'Oyly Carte: The Count of Luxembourg (Franz Lehár, English version by Eric Maschwitz and Nigel Douglas)
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Full score, piano-vocal score and parts for the English version by Eric Maschwitz and Nigel Douglas. D'Oyly Carte, 1997. Score prepared by John Owen Edwards.
Manuscript scores and sketches from the Elgar Birthplace Museum Collection: Large-scale works for multiple voices with orchestra
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MS Mus. 1843/1/1: Manuscript sketches and drafts for The Light of Life, Caractacus, The Kingdom and The Crown of India MS Mus. 1843/1/2-3: The Dream of Gerontius, sketches and manuscript vocal score MS Mus. 1843/1/4-5: Coronation Ode, manuscript vocal score and arrangements MS Mus. 1843/1/6: The ...