MUSIC

Great Britain’s D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, which closed in 1982 after 107 years, was reborn Tuesday after receiving a $1.7-million bequest from founder Richard D’Oyly Carte’s granddaughter. A trumpeters’ fanfare from “Iolanthe,” one of the company’s 14 Savoy operas by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, preceded the announcement of the rebirth at the Savoy Hotel, which was built from the original profits. The company was refinanced by the estate of Dame Bridget D’Oyly, who died in 1985. Her grandfather introduced dramatist Gilbert to composer Sullivan in 1875, a meeting that ultimately resulted in such productions as “H.M.S. Pinafore,” “The Pirates of Penzance” and “The Mikado.”