Four D’Oyly Carte Opera Company Scarves decorated with ‘Gilbert and Sullivan’ and [their] crest (a clack and white stylised bird with a shield on its chest). Two blue and white and cotton, one brown and white and cotton, one brown and white and silk.
D'Oyly Carte: Papers Relating to Costumes and Props for the 1975 Production of Utopia Limited
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Production notes about costumes, props and scenery, including receipts, a wig plot, a prop list, a furniture plot, a costume plan, notes about movements, a cast list and notes on sets and scenery. The file also includes a newspaper cutting (Financial Times, 7 Apr 1975), and LP recording schedule ...
D'Oyly Carte: Miscellaneous Material about D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. and Gilbert & Sullivan Operas (1)
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The file includes: List of average running times for the D’Oyly Carte Operas. Notes about a quick means of checking whether editions of Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Libretti are first editions. List of Savoy Operas performed between 1871-1901. Cast lists for the Savoy Operas, 1875-1896 and 1919-19...
D'Oyly Carte: Miscellaneous Material about D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. and Gilbert & Sullivan Operas (2)
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The file includes: Photocopy of an image labelled ‘W.S. Gilbert, Harlequin, Mdlle. Rosa, Coulenbine, Feb. 13th 1878’. Photocopy of an article about Mlle. Rosa from The Dancing Times (March 1916). Photocopy of an image of F.C. Burnand. Photocopy of a poster(?) for The Forty Thieves at The Gaiety ...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Peg Dolls (The Yeomen of the Guard and H.M.S. Pinafore)
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Six 'peg dolls' in costume, made by Jo Adnams: The Yeomen of the Guard: Colonel Fairfax, Phoebe Meryll, Jack Point. H.M.S. Pinafore: Buttercup, Sir Joseph Porter, Hebe. The dolls are presented in their original labelled (shoe)-box, with bespoke cardboard dividers. This is the first of four boxes...
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Correspondence Regarding the Sale of Arthur Sullivan's Scores
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The file includes some newspaper cuttings about W. S. Gilbert's letters to Sullivan purchased by the British Museum (1956), but the majority of the letters (1966-67) relate to the sale of Sullivan's scores and other papers.
D'Oyly Carte Family Papers: Michael D'Oyly Carte (Photographs)
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(1). Seven small black and white photographs (one with a negative) of Michael D'Oyly Carte (and others). In the earliest portrait (studio), he is approximately two years old; the latest portrait is annotated on the verso: '1932 or 1933' (Michael D'Oyly Carte died in 1932). (2). Michael D'Oyly C...