and New Zealand in 1905 and 1906, managed by Henry Bracy. Rupert D'Oyly Carte considered producing a revival in 1925, but the cost of the production was found to be too great, and the proposed revival was abandoned. Utopia was not revived by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company until 4 April 1975, during the company's centenary season at the Savoy Theatre, directed by Michael Heyland. The single performance was so oversubscribed that the company arranged to give four further performances at the Royal Festival Hall in London later that year. Various amateur companies performed the opera during the 20th century, and it has enjoyed occasional professional productions in the U.S. by professional companies such as the American Savoyards in the 1950s and 1960s, the Light Opera of Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s, Light Opera Works in Chicago in 1984 and Ohio Light Opera in 2001. The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players also gave a staged concert performance in celebration of the opera's centenary in 1993 and again in 2010. The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company gave two fully staged performances at the 18th International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England in 2011, producing a commercial video of the production. Although productions are still less frequent than those of the better-known Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and professional productions are rare, Utopia is regularly presented by some of the amateur Gilbert and Sullivan repertory companies, and an amateur production has been seen most summers at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. Roles Utopians King Paramount the First, King of Utopia (baritone) Phantis, Scaphio, Judges of the Utopian Supreme Court (comic baritones) Tarara, The Public Exploder (comic baritone) Calynx, The Utopian Vice-Chamberlain (speaking) The Princess Zara, eldest daughter of King Paramount (soprano) The Princess Nekaya (soprano) and The Princess Kalyba (mezzo-soprano), her younger sisters The Lady Sophy, their English Gouvernante (contralto) Salata (speaking), Melene (speaking), and Phylla (soprano), Utopian Maidens Imported Flowers of Progress Lord Dramaleigh, a British Lord Chamberlain (high baritone) Captain Fitzbattleaxe, First Life Guards (tenor) Captain Sir Edward Corcoran, KCB, of the Royal Navy (bass) Mr. Goldbury, a Company Promoter, afterwards Comptroller of the Utopian Household (baritone) Sir Bailey Barre, Q.C., MP (tenor) Mr. Blushington, of the County Council (baritone) Synopsis Act I On the fictional South Pacific island of Utopia, the monarch, King Paramount, has sent his eldest daughter, Princess Zara, to Girton College in England.