D’Oyly Carte opened the Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton way back in 1894, and now 125 years later we will be giving a special performance of Gilbert and Sullivan a la Carte to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the theatres opening on Tuesday 26th November, 2019.
On 12th July, 1988 The New D’Oyly Carte Opera Company opened it’s London season at the Cambridge Theatre in Seven Dials, Covent Garden.
This spring D’Oyly Carte is partnering with English Touring Opera to present a series of singers workshops to coincide with ETO’s Spring Tour.
This Spring we are collaborating with English Touring Opera, to deliver workshops for teenagers and young adults, introducing the world of Gilbert and Sullivan, and focusing on vocal technique, dialogue, comic timing and patter songs. The sessions will also look at pathways into the profession.
In December 2017, both Trial by Jury and Cox and Box will receive their Russian premiere.
Since leaving us last year our archive has been taken into the collection at The British Library and staff there have been exhaustively cataloguing each item so that it can be easily accessed using the British Library’s accession reference system.
Performances of our co-production of The Mikado, with Scottish Opera ended on 2nd July in Southampton.
On May 5th The Mikado 2016 opened at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.
