Gilbert and Sullivan's early operas played at other London theatres, and Patience (1881) was the first opera to appear at the Savoy Theatre, and thus, in a strict sense, the first true "Savoy Opera", although the term "Savoy Opera" has, for over a century, referred to all thirteen operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for Richard D'Oyly Carte. Tucson, AZ 85715 : Average customer rating: See reviews, rate this venue, upload venue photos » No upcoming events. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which impresario Richard DOyly Carte built to house the Gilbert and Sullivan pieces, and later, those by other composerlibrettist teams. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. However, the Penguin Opera Guides and many other general music dictionaries and encyclopedias classify the Gilbert and Sullivan works as operettas. Savoy opera was a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. Most of the published literature on Gilbert and Sullivan since that time refers to these works as "Savoy Operas", " comic operas", or both. Gilbert, Sullivan, Carte and other Victorian era British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind "comic operas" to distinguish their content and style from that of the often risqué continental European operettas that they wished to displace.
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