Herbert / Cast Chorus & Orch of Ohio Light / Byes: Victor Herbert: Dream City & the Magic Knight

Herbert / Cast Chorus & Orch of Ohio Light / Byes: Victor Herbert: Dream City & the Magic Knight - COMPACT DISCS

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Victor Herbert: Dream City & the Magic Knight

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Herbert / Cast Chorus & Orch of Ohio Light / Byes

Label:

Albany Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

034061154129

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2015-01-06

Number of Discs:

2

Rarely, if ever, has a successful Broadway show received such unanimously rave reviews, yet disappeared so quickly as Victor Herbert's 1906 Dream City & the Magic Knight. The show traces it's genesis to attempts by the celebrated vaudeville team of Lew Fields and Joe Weber to interest Victor Herbert in writing music for one of their shows. Herbert had no interest in writing for vaudeville, but when Weber went out on his own as a producer, he contracted with Herbert for a comic opera. Billed as a "Dramatic Pipe in Two Puffs," the show's zany first act was in the musical comedy style; in the middle of the second act as an operatic burlesque, spoofing the conventions of grand opera, particularly Wagner's Lohengrin. The Ohio Light Opera offers a new performance edition, with complete music and dialogue recorded live at the 2014 Summer Festival.

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