Second part of a short appearance by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on the BBC's Omnibus programme in 1982 just before they closed down . Its the last time the original company performed on the BBC. They perform the finale to H.M.S Pinafore.Principal performers include Meston Reid, John Ayldon,James Conroy-Ward and Patricia Leonard.
@last9bars On Wednesday it will be 30 since the D'Oyly Carts last night at the Adelphe. I was lucky enought to be there and had made friends with some of the cast. It is sad to think a number are no longer around like Pat and Meston.
pumpersg9 14 hours ago
@talmadge1926 I had picked up a recording of the D'Oyly Opera Co. performing H. M. S. Pinafore and Penzance and some selections of the Mikado and immediately was hooked! To me it is what Gilbert and Sullivan should sound like, --it just sounded so right. I haven't come across anything like it since. At least we have recording to enjoy them by. A truly Great ensemble!!
88Ed1962 3 months ago
How funny to see this, almost 30 years later. I joined the Company in early 1980 at the princely sum of £69.50 a week. So many faces from my past in that short clip.
last9bars 4 months ago
The real D'Oyly was the best. What is now called D'Oyly Carte is crap.
Thanks to Alistair Donkin, formally of the original, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston is the real D'Oyly Carte of old. Check them out, they have been around for 60 years now and Alistair has been there 30. Alistair come from the line of Martyn Green and John Reed.
bark777sammi 8 months ago
Gilbert & Sullivan at its best.. We hall not see their likes again. The real D'Oyly Carte Opera Company not the bad copy that tried much later... So Sad...
mikerubb 11 months ago
G&S has been heard,and acted in my family since 1955.Does anyone remember the shows in Buenos Aires??? they were just like D'Oyly Carte,style and even voices!!
I was about 7 when I went to see H.M.S Pinafore at the Casal de Catalunja in B.A.
Nice to remember.
eddiealle 1 year ago
@talmadge1926 Yes, I completely agree. It is a touch which could be achieved in the 60s, I'm not sure about now.
The hypocrisy of the Conservative party... Conserving what?
yadsik 1 year ago
Nobody but NOBODY could perform G & S like the Doyle Carte. It was done with Victorian panache and whimsy and solid artistry. G & S was my introduction to "classical" music as a child and my birthday treat was often Hms Pinafore or The Gondoliers or best of all "Iolanthe". Those overweight victorian fairies with numbers on their backs all crashing into one another! It was a downright disgrace that the arts council backed by MrsThatcher murdered a dearly loved english institution.
talmadge1926 1 year ago
Sniff.
CaptFitzbattleaxe 1 year ago