 Pinafore", Picorin in "Mirette", Vasquez in "The Chieftain", the Duke of Dunstable in "Patience", Marco in "The Gondoliers", Nanki-Poo in "The Mikado" and Ernest Dummkopf in the first British provincial production of "The Grand Duke".At the end of 1896, Blackmore left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.He toured for more than a year in a new musical comedy, "The Ballet Girl", by James T. Tanner and Adrian Ross, playing the role of Reuben Van .