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. ...
D'Oyly Carte: A Welsh Sunset (Frederick Fenn and Philip Michael Faraday)
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Full score and parts in copy manuscript. First performed at the Savoy Theatre from 15 Jul 1908 with revivals of H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance until 17 Oct 1908, and from 2 Dec 1908 until 24 Feb 1909: a total of 85 performances.
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: La Basoche (Albert Carré and André Messager)
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Full score, vocal score and parts, published by Choudens (Paris). Some annotations. Supplementary material in copy manuscript (transposed parts). First performed at the Opéra-Comique (Salle du Théâtre Lyrique, place du Châtelet), Paris, on 30 May 1890. Performed in London in 1891, in an Englis...
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...