After All!
Music by Alfred Cellier
After All! is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Frank Desprez and music by Alfred Cellier.
It was first performed at the Savoy Theatre under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte, along with H.M.S. Pinafore and another short piece, Cups and Saucers, from December 1878 to February 1880.
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About the Composer
Alfred Cellier (1 December 1844 – 28 December 1891) was an English composer, orchestrator and conductor. In addition to conducting and music directing the original productions of several of the most famous Gilbert and Sullivan works and writing the overtures to some of them, Cellier conducted at many theatres in London, New York and on tour in Britain, America and Australia. He composed over a dozen operas and other works for the theatre, as well as for orchestra, but his 1886 comic opera, Dorothy, was by far his most successful work. It became the longest-running piece of musical theatre in the nineteenth century.
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Other Operas by Alfred Cellier
- Dora's Dream (1873)
- Doris (1875)
- In the Sulks (1880)
- Dorothy (1886)