There he conducted for the company of Selina Dolaro under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1876.
Pinafore in July and August 1878, while Alfred Cellier was assisting Arthur Sullivan at the promenade concerts at Covent Garden.
[2] Goossens became famous as a musical director of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, for whom he conducted the first English performance of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, in Liverpool in 1882.
He conducted Rosa's company in a command performance, in November 1892, of The Daughter of the Regiment for Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle.
[3] In the early 1890s, he moved to Liverpool, where he founded the "Goossens Male-voice Choir," served as organist and choirmaster at St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church and taught singing.