Alfred Cellier was a conductor for many years at Gilbert & Sullivan's D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and certainly knew the output of that duo by heart. He composed several operettas of his own, and Dorothy, from 1886, was actually the longest-running stage work of the 19th century, drawing nightly audiences for nearly three years and eclipsing The Mikado and everything else. Cellier went on to write a work with Gilbert, The Mountebanks, which has occasionally been revived, but Dorothy has been completely forgotten. One can see ...
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Alfred Cellier was a conductor for many years at Gilbert & Sullivan's D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and certainly knew the output of that duo by heart. He composed several operettas of his own, and Dorothy, from 1886, was actually the longest-running stage work of the 19th century, drawing nightly audiences for nearly three years and eclipsing The Mikado and everything else. Cellier went on to write a work with Gilbert, The Mountebanks, which has occasionally been revived, but Dorothy has been completely forgotten. One can see why this was: the words and music do not hang together in the magic way they usually do with Gilbert & Sullivan. Yet an operetta company reviving it will have a good experience, and the Victorian Opera Orchestra & Chorus, under the direction of the nearly nonagenarian Richard Bonynge, have done a great service here. Cellier's music is strongly reminiscent of Sullivan's, and indeed some of it was recycled from an earlier failed operetta of 1876, when Gilbert & Sullivan were just...
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