Percy Anderson (designer)
Percy Anderson (22 March 185130 October 1928) was an English stage designer and painter, best known for his work for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company at His Majesty's Theatre, London, His Majesty's Theatre and Edwardian musical comedies. Life and career Anderson was born on 22 March 1851 at Willesden, North West London. His first significant production was the comic opera ''Lady of the Locket'', composed by William Fullerton Jr. with a libretto by Henry Hamilton (playwright), Henry Hamilton. Beginning with ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' (1888), Anderson designed the costumes for all the original productions of the Savoy Operas. He continued to design costumes for D'Oyly Carte revivals in the early twentieth century, including for ''Trial by Jury'', ''H.M.S. Pinafore'', ''The Pirates of Penzance'', ''Patience (opera), Patience'', ''Iolanthe'', ''Princess Ida'', ''Ruddigore'', ''The Yeomen of the Guard'', and ''The Gondoliers'' ...
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