D Oyly Carte

Author : PAUL. SEELEY
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367610493

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D'Oyly Carte by PAUL. SEELEY Pdf

This book considers and discuss aspects of the management of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D'Oyly Carte and concentrate on key events which contributed to its demise in 1982. In this project, Paul Seeley follows the analytical model that no single factor may trigger the collapse but several, both external and internal. In the case of an opera company the external factors may include public taste and market forces, but more significant are the internal factors such as the management decisions taken in response to external factors and how these compare with the original artistic aims, aspirations and business models of the founder. This is a study by someone with close observation of the administration, for at the 1982 demise Paul was assistant to the company manager, having earlier served on the music staff. The book will be of great interest to music historians, theatre historians, and arts management professionals, but also for a wider public interested in Gilbert and Sullivan opera and production.

Author : Olivia Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643137391

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The Secret Life of the Savoy by Olivia Williams Pdf

The captivating story of the famed Savoy Hotel’s founders, told through three generations—and one hundred years—of glamour and high society. For the gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and as a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five-foot high birthday cake. In three generations, the D'Oyly Carte family and London's Savoy Hotel pioneered the idea of the luxury hotel and the modern theater, propelled Gilbert and Sullivan to lasting stardom, made Oscar Wilde a transatlantic celebrity, inspired a P. G. Wodehouse series, and popularized early jazz, electric lights, and Art Deco. Following the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel through three generations of the D'Oyly Carte family, The Secret Life of the Savoy brings to life the extraordinary cultural legacy of the most famous hotel in the world.

Author : Roberta Morrell,David Steadman
Publisher : Matador
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1803130547

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D'Oyly Carte by Roberta Morrell,David Steadman Pdf

D'Oyly Carte: Through the Lens is a beautiful book of photographs of the world-renowned D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, most of which have never previously been seen.

Author : Paul Seeley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000487343

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D’Oyly Carte by Paul Seeley Pdf

This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D’Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982. In this book, Paul Seeley follows the analytical model that proposes no single factor triggered the collapse, but rather several, both external and internal. In the case of an opera company the external factors may include public taste and market forces, but more significant are the internal factors such as the management decisions taken in response to external factors and how these compare with the original artistic aims, aspirations and business models of the founder. This is a study by someone with close observation of the administration; at the 1982 demise, Seeley was assistant to the company manager, having earlier served on the music staff. The book is a must-read for music historians, theatre historians and arts-management professionals; as an uncompromisingly critical history of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company it is designed to serve a wider public, not just the Gilbert and Sullivan opera specialist, but anyone keen to debate the desirability of private or public sponsorship of the performing arts.

Author : Paul Seeley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351045896

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Richard D’Oyly Carte by Paul Seeley Pdf

The first biography of Richard D’Oyly Carte, this is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan. Errors and misconceptions in current literature are challenged and corrected to give a truer portrayal of one of the most influential music theatre promoters in the nineteenth century.

Author : Roberta Morrell
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785893803

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D'Oyly Carte by Roberta Morrell Pdf

'D'Oyly Carte: The Inside Story' looks at the life of the historic D'Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1950 and its sad demise in 1982. After thrilling audiences on both sides of the Atlantic from the time of Queen Victoria with its productions of Gilbert and Sullivan, the last great touring repertory company said farewell to its audiences after 107 years. Although many books have been written about the company founded by Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1875, none has been from the perspective of its members. This book details the working life of every department of the famous company, from its London management to the wardrobe department, as told by Roberta Morrell, herself a performer with the company for 10 years. Having travelled all over the UK to interview her former colleagues, Roberta uses their stories and recollections to present an insight into the world of a theatre company on tour for 48 weeks of every year. Personal tales of travel, theatrical digs, mad-cap parties, on-stage disasters, overseas tours and glamorous occasions are told by singers, musicians, back-stage staff and senior managers proud to have been a part of the D'Oyly Carte story. Hilarious anecdotes are mingled with serious fact, from eccentric landladies of the 1950s, to the logistics of presenting a Royal Command Performance at Windsor Castle. Mix in a little intrigue over the ownership of the Savoy Hotel and you have an entertaining account of a unique theatrical institution that will appeal to any reader.

Author : Raymond Walker,David Skelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Opera
ISBN : 0952994313

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Backdrop to a Legend by Raymond Walker,David Skelly Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Cadiz Topp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1777342708

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Deep Indigo by Elizabeth Cadiz Topp Pdf

Daughter of an English lord, and married to the man who owned The Savoy, Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte enjoyed all of the privileges that wealth and position could offer in pre-war England. But then, in the 1930s, she visited Trinidad and Tobago and fell in love, both with the beauty and charm of the islands, and with the author's great uncle, St. Yves de Verteuil. She would spend the rest of her long life in Tobago, deeply involved in the community in which she lived. In Deep Indigo, author Elizabeth Cadiz Topp draws on family lore, historical research, and a rich imagination to breathe life into a story she first heard as a child. Infused with joy, humour and heartbreak, it tells the story of a courageous, generous and eccentric woman who defied the society she grew up in and found her own way.

Author : Regina B. Oost
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754664120

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Gilbert and Sullivan by Regina B. Oost Pdf

Making extensive use of archival resources, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs; letters, diaries, and account books; and the operas themselves to reconstruct the ways in which Gilbert and Sullivan and their producer attracted and shaped the expectations of theatergoers. Highly accessible and entertaining, her book will appeal to scholars of theater history, literature, music, and popular culture, as well as general readers.

Author : Roberta Morrell
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785893803

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D'Oyly Carte by Roberta Morrell Pdf

'D'Oyly Carte: The Inside Story' looks at the life of the historic D'Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1950 and its sad demise in 1982. After thrilling audiences on both sides of the Atlantic from the time of Queen Victoria with its productions of Gilbert and Sullivan, the last great touring repertory company said farewell to its audiences after 107 years. Although many books have been written about the company founded by Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1875, none has been from the perspective of its members. This book details the working life of every department of the famous company, from its London management to the wardrobe department, as told by Roberta Morrell, herself a performer with the company for 10 years. Having travelled all over the UK to interview her former colleagues, Roberta uses their stories and recollections to present an insight into the world of a theatre company on tour for 48 weeks of every year. Personal tales of travel, theatrical digs, mad-cap parties, on-stage disasters, overseas tours and glamorous occasions are told by singers, musicians, back-stage staff and senior managers proud to have been a part of the D'Oyly Carte story. Hilarious anecdotes are mingled with serious fact, from eccentric landladies of the 1950s, to the logistics of presenting a Royal Command Performance at Windsor Castle. Mix in a little intrigue over the ownership of the Savoy Hotel and you have an entertaining account of a unique theatrical institution that will appeal to any reader.

Author : Kurt Gänzl
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438485478

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Gilbert and Sullivan by Kurt Gänzl Pdf

In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, vividly colored by the often little-known life stories of these early performers. Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays delves into the professional and personal lives of the British and American actors and singers who created the celebrated "famous fourteen" Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002164474

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Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Mackie
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 183975494X

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A Bit More Like Work, Or Life After D'Oyly Carte by David Mackie Pdf

An account of the author's life as a free-lance accompanist, conductor and researcher after the demise of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1982.

Author : Kenneth James
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852855266

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Escoffier by Kenneth James Pdf

The most famous chef of them all - bar none, including Jamie Oliver. It is hard to over empathise his importance to fine cuisine. We derive the word 'scoff' from his name of course.

Author : Dan Dietz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538102770

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The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals by Dan Dietz Pdf

Despite the stock market crash of October 1929, thousands of theatregoers still flocked to the Great White Way throughout the country’s darkest years. In keeping with the Depression and the events leading up to World War II, 1930s Broadway was distinguished by numerous political revues and musicals, including three by George Gershwin (Strike Up the Band, Of Thee I Sing, and Let ’Em Eat Cake). The decade also saw the last musicals by Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Vincent Youmans; found Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in full flower; and introduced both Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen’s music to Broadway. In The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every musical that opened on Broadway from 1930 through 1939. This book discusses the era’s major successes, notorious failures, and musicals that closed during their pre-Broadway tryouts. It includes such shows as Anything Goes, As Thousands Cheer, Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse, The Cradle Will Rock, The Green Pastures, Hellzapoppin, Hot Mikado, Porgy and Bess, Roberta, and various editions of Ziegfeld Follies. Each entry contains the following information: Plot summary Cast members Names of all important personnel, including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors Opening and closing dates Number of performances Critical commentary Musical numbers and the performers who introduced the songs Production data, including information about tryouts Source material Details about London and other foreign productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, including a discography, filmography, and list of published scripts, as well as lists of black-themed and Jewish-themed productions. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of information and provides a comprehensive view of each show. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.