In 1880 he toured with Pinafore and The Sorcerer, along with shorter companion pieces, and in December 1880, the company began to play The Pirates of Penzance.
[1] Back in New York, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, Halton music directed the American premiere of The Mikado from August 1885 to April 1886.
On 4 September 1891, he conducted The Mikado for Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle – an assignment that the patriotic Irishman accepted grudgingly.
[citation needed] In October 1891, Iolanthe was added to the company's repertory,[3] and from January to July 1892 they also included The Nautch Girl.
The company continued to add more shows: Patience in August 1892, Pirates in May 1893, Pinafore and Trial in January 1894, The Sorcerer in April 1895, the curtain raiser Cox and Box in May, and Princess Ida in December 1895.
It embraced all the Gilbert and Sullivan operas Halton had been conducting, except Princess Ida, and also included Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke.
ver the next six-and-a-half years, with Halton as their musical director, the same touring company played all the G&S operas except Ruddigore and The Grand Duke plus, in 1900, The Rose of Persia.