Editing Princess Ida (section)

==Historical casting==
The following tables show the casts of the principal original productions and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring repertory at various times through to the company's 1982 closure.
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!Role!!Savoy Theatre<br>1884<ref name=R&W9/>!!Fifth Avenue<br>1884<ref name=Ganzl247>Gänzl, p. 247</ref><ref>Prestige, Colin. "D'Oyly Carte and the Pirates", a [http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/5875 paper presented at the International Conference of G&S] held at the [[University of Kansas]], May 1970, p. 145</ref>!!Fifth Avenue<br>1887<ref name=Ganzl247/>||D'Oyly Carte<br>1910 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 127</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br>1920 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 138</ref>
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|'''King Hildebrand'''||[[Rutland Barrington]]||[[Signor Brocolini|Sgr Brocolini]]||[[Signor Brocolini|Sgr Brocolini]]||[[Fred Billington]]||[[Leo Sheffield]]
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|'''Hilarion'''||[[Henry Bracy]]||Wallace Macreery||[[Courtice Pounds]]||Henry Herbert||Arthur Lucas
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|'''Cyril'''||[[Durward Lely]]||W. S. Rising||Phil Branson||[[Strafford Moss]]||[[Derek Oldham]]
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|'''Florian'''||Charles Ryley||Charles F. Long||Stuart Harold||[[Leicester Tunks]]||[[Sydney Granville]]
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|'''King Gama'''||[[George Grossmith]]||[[J. H. Ryley]]||J. W. Herbert||[[Henry Lytton]]||[[Henry Lytton]]
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|'''Arac'''||[[Richard Temple (opera singer)|Richard Temple]]||W. Ainsley Scott||Joseph Fay||[[Sydney Granville]]||[[Frederick Hobbs (singer)|Frederick Hobbs]]
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|'''Guron'''||Warwick Gray||James Earley||N. S. Burnham||Fred Hewett||Joe Ruff
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|'''Scynthius'''||[[William Lugg]]||E. J. Conley||L. W. Raymond||George Sinclair||George Sinclair
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|'''Princess Ida'''||[[Leonora Braham]]||[[Cora Tanner|Cora S. Tanner]]||[[Geraldine Ulmar]]||Marjorie Stone||[[Sylvia Cecil]]
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|'''Lady Blanche'''||[[Rosina Brandram]]||Genevieve Reynolds||Alice Carle||[[Bertha Lewis]]||[[Bertha Lewis]]
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|'''Lady Psyche'''||Kate Chard||Florence Bemister||Helen Lamont||Mabel Graham||Gladys Sinclair
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|'''Melissa'''||[[Jessie Bond]]||[[Hattie Delaro]]||Agnes Stone||Beatrice Boarer||[[Nellie Briercliffe]]
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|'''Sacharissa'''||[[Sybil Grey]]||Eva Barrington||Edith Jennesse||Myfanwy Newell||Nancy Ray
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|'''Chloe'''||Miss Heathcote||Eily Coghlan||Miss Branson||[[Anna Bethell]]||Winifred Downing
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|'''Ada'''||Miss Twyman||Clara Primrose||Miss McCann||Ethel Gledhill||Nell Raymond
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!Role!!D'Oyly Carte<br>1929 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 154</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br>1939 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 164</ref>||Savoy Theatre<br>1954<ref name="Rollins and Witts, p. 179"/>!!D'Oyly Carte<br>1965 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, 1st Supplement, p. 7</ref>!!Savoy Theatre<br>1975<ref>Rollins and Witts, Third Supplement, p. 28</ref>
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|'''King Hildebrand'''||Joseph Griffin||[[Sydney Granville]]||[[Fisher Morgan]]||[[Kenneth Sandford]]||[[Kenneth Sandford]]
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|'''Hilarion'''||[[Derek Oldham]]||John Dudley||[[Thomas Round]]||[[Philip Potter]]||Colin Wright
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|'''Cyril'''||[[Charles Goulding]]||[[John Dean (singer)|John Dean]]||[[Leonard Osborn]]||David Palmer||[[Ralph Mason]]
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|'''Florian'''||[[Leslie Rands]]||[[Leslie Rands]]||[[Jeffrey Skitch]]||[[Alan Styler]]||[[Thomas Lawlor (opera singer)|Thomas Lawlor]]
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|'''King Gama'''||[[Henry Lytton]]||[[Martyn Green]]||[[Peter Pratt]]||[[John Reed (actor)|John Reed]]||[[John Reed (actor)|John Reed]]
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|'''Arac'''||[[Darrell Fancourt]]||[[Darrell Fancourt]]||[[Donald Adams]]||[[Donald Adams]]||[[John Ayldon]]
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|'''Guron'''||[[Richard Walker (singer)|Richard Walker]]||[[Richard Walker (singer)|Richard Walker]]||John Banks||Anthony Raffell||[[Michael Rayner]]
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|'''Scynthius'''||[[L. Radley Flynn]]||[[L. Radley Flynn]]||Trevor Hills||[[George Cook (opera singer)|George Cook]]||Jon Ellison
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|'''Princess Ida'''||[[Winifred Lawson]]||[[Helen Roberts]]||Victoria Sladen||Ann Hood||[[Valerie Masterson]]
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|'''Lady Blanche'''||[[Bertha Lewis]]||[[Evelyn Gardiner]]||[[Ann Drummond-Grant]]||[[Christene Palmer]]||[[Lyndsie Holland]]
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|'''Lady Psyche'''||[[Sybil Gordon]]||Margery Abbott||Muriel Harding||[[Valerie Masterson]]||[[Julia Goss]]
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|'''Melissa'''||[[Nellie Briercliffe]]||[[Marjorie Eyre]]||Beryl Dixon||[[Pauline Wales]]||[[Pauline Wales]]
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|'''Sacharissa'''||Nancy Ray||Maysie Dean||Cynthia Morey||Anne Sessions||Anne Egglestone
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|'''Chloe'''||Beatrice Elburn||Ivy Sanders||Margaret Dobson||Jennifer Marks||Marjorie Williams
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|'''Ada'''||Nancy Hughes||Marjorie Flinn||Maureen Melvin||Elizabeth Mynett||Rosalind Griffiths
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[[File:Ida 1924 recording cast.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Left to right: [[J. M. Gordon]], [[Harry Norris (conductor)|Norris]], [[Winifred Lawson|Lawson]], [[Leo Sheffield|Sheffield]], [[Henry Lytton|Lytton]], [[Eileen Sharp]] and [[Darrell Fancourt|Fancourt]] – publicity shot for the 1924 recording]]