biography
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D'Oyly Carte, Richard
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pronunciation:
[doylee kah(r)t]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1844–1901)
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| biography:
| Theatrical impresario, born in London, UK. After working in his father's musical instrument-making business he became a concert agent, and from 1875 produced the first operettas by ‘Gilbert and Sullivan’, with whom he formed a partnership. In 1881 he built the Savoy Theatre in London, the first to be lit by electricity. Another theatre building, a Royal English Opera House (1887), failed. After his death the D'Oyly Carte company continued to perform Gilbert and Sullivan in traditional style for many years. |
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