D'Oyly Carte Opera Company http://www.doylycarte.org.uk The original and best of Guilbert & Sullivan Tue, 21 May 2013 17:26:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Some new production images… http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/production-images/ http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/production-images/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 15:12:36 +0000 admin http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/?p=1909 You can now find some new production shots on The Pirates of Penzance page

Enjoy.

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http://piratestheshow.com/gallery/

]]> http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/production-photographs-view/feed/ 0 The Pirates of Penzance opens tonight in Glasgow http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/pirates-penzance-opens-tonight-glasgow/ http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/pirates-penzance-opens-tonight-glasgow/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 10:12:49 +0000 admin http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/?p=1881 Our co-production with Scottish Opera opens this evening May 15th at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow. This is an important day for the company and for it’s future. If you haven’t yet booked your tickets to see the show, don’t delay – book today! You can buy your tickets at piratestheshow.com
As soon as we have images of the production, and a selection of reviews we will add them on this page, so please stay in touch, and let your friends and family know that D’Oyly Carte is back in production.

]]> http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/pirates-penzance-opens-tonight-glasgow/feed/ 0 Rehearsals under way… http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/rehearsals-underway/ http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/rehearsals-underway/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:02:24 +0000 admin http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/?p=1873 Rehearsals have started in Glasgow for The Pirates of Penzance, 2013.
This co-production with Scottish Opera has been three years in the planning and we are all very excited to see it open on May 15th at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow.
A full company of over 90 members are working diligently to produce what we believe will be a Pirates for the 21st Century. With Richard Suart returning to bring us his superb Major General Stanley, and with Stephen Page’s Pirate King, which will shiver any ones timbers, the entire company will be just what the ships cat ordered; piratical mirth a plenty, and sumptuous musical expertise from John Owen Edwards and the Scottish Opera Orchestra, we can’t wait to get the production on the stage.
You can pick up all the ticket booking information you need at piratestheshow.com or you can follow us on facebook and twitter by clicking the buttons on this page. (Don’t forget to share to spread the word)…
We all look forward to seeing you in Scotland or any of our ‘south of the border’ venues, up until the end of July… all aboard!!

]]> http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/rehearsals-underway/feed/ 0 Scottish Opera & D’Oyly Carte Co-Production – The Pirates of Penzance http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/scottish-opera-co-production-pirates-penzance/ http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/scottish-opera-co-production-pirates-penzance/#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:26:44 +0000 admin http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/index.php/?p=1722 Pirates of PenzanceWith generous support from  The Michael Bishop Foundation, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company will return to production in 2013, in a production of The Pirates of Penzance, a co-production with Scottish Opera.

D’Oyly Carte’s Music Director, John Owen Edwards will conduct, and Martin Lloyd-Evans will direct.

The production will be designed by Jamie Vartan, choreographed by Steve Elias, with lighting design by Colin Grenfell.

Performances will commence in Glasgow, at the Theatre Royal, on Wednesday 15th May, 2013, with His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen from Thursday 23rd May, the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday 28th May and Eden Court Theatre, Inverness from Thursday 6th June.

Further UK dates have been confirmed as follows…  Manchester Opera House from Tuesday 11th June, Bristol Hippodrome from Tuesday 18th June, Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tuesday 25th June, Oxford from Tuesday 2nd July, and Cardiff Millennium Centre from Tuesday 16th July.

Further details can be found at http://www.scottishopera.org.uk/our-operas/12-13/the-pirates-of-penzance and at piratestheshow.com

]]> http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/scottish-opera-co-production-pirates-penzance/feed/ 0 D’Oyly Carte returns to Savoy in 2001 – The Pirates of Penzance http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/doyly-carte-returns-to-savoy-the-pirates-of-penzance/ http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/doyly-carte-returns-to-savoy-the-pirates-of-penzance/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:55:04 +0000 admin http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/?p=1639 22nd January, 2001 – D’Oyly Carte are set to return to the Savoy again following their recent successful Mikado season. Following heavy public demand the Company are to revive their production of The Pirates of Penzance which was last seen in London in 1998.

The production is directed by Stuart Maunder and designed by Roger Kirk. Choreography is by Lindsay Dolan and lighting design by Chris Ellis.

This production will build on the newly revived relationship which the Company is enjoying with the Savoy Theatre. The Savoy was built by Richard D’Oyly Carte, the Company’s founder, and is now run by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen. 

The recent season of ‘The Mikado’ which closed at the Savoy on January 13th, 2001, broke box office records and became the highest grossing show at the Savoy since the theatre was re-opened following the fire which destroyed it in 1990. The show ran for 18 weeks, becoming the longest running season of one Gilbert and Sullivan show in history, since the original runs at the Savoy in the 1880′s/90′s.

The Pirates of Penzance is a limited season and will run for just eight weeks. Casting arrangements will be announced at a later date.

]]> http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/doyly-carte-returns-to-savoy-the-pirates-of-penzance/feed/ 0 Olivier Award Nominations – HMS Pinafore and The Mikado both nominated http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/olivier-award-nominations-hms-pinafore-and-the-mikado-both-nominated/ http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/blog/olivier-award-nominations-hms-pinafore-and-the-mikado-both-nominated/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:54:26 +0000 admin http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/?p=1637 D’Oyly Carte Opera Company has been nominated twice for its productions of HMS Pinafore and The Mikado at the Savoy Theatre in 2000.

Both productions have been nominated under the category of Outstanding Musical Production. HMS Pinafore played from February to May and The Mikado played from September 2000 to January 2001, both at the Savoy Theatre.

Others nominated in the category are The King and I at the Palladium, Singing in the Rain at the Royal National Theatre, and The Pirates of Penzance at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre. This is the first time that there have been three Gilbert and Sullivan operas nominated in one category.

D’Oyly Carte Opera Company is delighted to be nominated as the nomination represents an acknowledgement of the high artistic standards the company has striven to achieve in recent years. 

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