The Sorcerer is not one of Gilbert and Sullivan's more popular operettas for a number of reasons. A large reason is that it sounds formulaic -- even though it's one of their early collaborations -- and less cleverly inspired than their greater successes. For the most part, the characters don't have much character to them, so to speak, or at least ...
The Firefly (1912) was Rudolf Friml's first operetta and has remained one of his more popular works. Albany continues its series of the Ohio Light Opera's productions of classic operettas with the first complete recording of The Firefly, including dialogue. All the principals are accomplished singers and comedians, with light, young-sounding ...
The Ohio Light Opera initially took on Carl Zeller's molto obscuro 1891 comic opera Die Vogelhändler (The Birdseller) in 1993 as its then director and founder James Stuart had undertaken a translation of the work into English, as he had other European operas such as Auber's Fra Diavolo and Lecocq's La Fille de Madame Agnot. Although Stuart hoped, ...
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