Doris
Music by Alfred Cellier
Doris is a "comedy opera" in three acts by Alfred Cellier, with a libretto by B. C. Stephenson. It is a revised version of Cellier's 1875 opera The Tower of London, produced by Henry J. Leslie as a follow-up to the duo's Dorothy (1886), which ran for a record-breaking 931 performances. Doris turned out to be only modestly successful. It opened at the Lyric Theatre in London on 20 April 1889 and ran for 202 performances and was produced, like Dorothy, by Henry J. Leslie. It starred Arthur Williams, Ben Davies, Alice Barnett, Hayden Coffin, Furneaux Cook and John Le Hay. The title character was first played by opera and concert singer Annette Albu (1858–1927), a fine singer, but she was not a great comic actress and not considered pretty; after two months, with the show already flagging, Leslie replaced her with his star from Dorothy, Marie Tempest.
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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)
- After All! (1878)
- In the Sulks (1880)
- Dorothy (1886)