ABSTRACT
While in Venice Sullivan had received, on 2 April 1889, a set of Italian verses from Gianandrea Mazzucato—a son of the eminent musician who had welcomed him at the Milan Conservatory 24 years before. Homeward bound from Vienna, Sullivan chose as usual to stop on the way in Paris. The American soprano Emma Eames, destined to become one of the most celebrated of opera singers, had just made her Paris debut in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette. The Savoy Hotel was built by Carte from the profits of his theatrical enterprise. Overlooking the Embankment its extension to the Strand was a later addition, it was as distinctly innovative as Carte’s Savoy Theatre had been. Originally with terraced balconies on every floor, it was the first great hotel in London to provide a private bathroom to each bedroom.
